Quotes About Potential

I realised that I have the ability to play at the highest level and started to work harder.

I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

Nobody thought that I could become a professional. I was not that good. It was really just one thing I had fun doing. But it was never realistic for me to become a professional until I became 17 or maybe 18.

Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

I'm not worried about Gordon Hayward. I'm not worried about his future or how good a player he is. He's doing everything he can. If he doesn't become the player that he wants to be, then it won't be from a lack of trying.

I got a bright future ahead of me.

I feel like I'm capable of doing anything and everything. I just got to come to work every day.

You gotta be great - you have one life.

I think it is important to grab the moment and be ready when the opportunity is in front of you, but people may not be ready when that moment arrives.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

I'm a great believer in my ability, but I've not had the chance to prove it.

My mum, Josephine, is a great believer that you can be whatever you want in life. I was raised as part of the postwar generation and encouraged to do well at school.

We are a great country with huge potential.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn't have the skills to be able to do that.