Quotes About Opportunity

I think there's so many areas within the football game that women are being more involved in, and I think it's great to see.

There's times in a football game where a team goes for a big TD pass. If you don't take a risk like that, you're not going to win.

My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.

As a football player, you would like to play each match.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

It's just what I need to do as a football player, to come in and bring life whenever I'm starting, whenever I'm coming in.

People are moving to Florida all the time, lots of times because the economy got tough in the North and they moved south to find jobs. Everybody who comes has two kids - and one of them is usually a football player.

There aren't many football players other than kickers who are Latin.

I wanted to come to a good football team so I could showcase what I could do.

It is good for any footballer to get a run of games.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

I've always dreamt of being a footballer. You only get one shot at a career like this, and I want to be the best professional I can. Anything I can do that means I can get the best out of my ability is what I'll try and do.

Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that's going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.

If I have to leave Chelsea I have to leave. It's one of those things as a footballer that you have to accept and hopefully there will be someone out there who wants me.

I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the club you support, and I am living that dream.

Every footballer wants to play. No one is happy when they are not playing.

Luck - it's key for every footballer's career. I have been incredibly lucky during my career and in my life.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

I have always said you only get one shot in life as a footballer.

I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

There is something about a cup final that brings out a different quality in a footballer. Do they have the courage to win a one-off match?

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.