Quotes About Potential

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.

In general, the human race is still a young organism.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

I am overall optimistic about India's growth.

I think Griezmann has all the quality to overcome Thierry Henry, as Mbappe has too.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

The top 100 guys overseas could play in the NBA, right? But a lot of times, it's about that opportunity, about that fit.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

It takes ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'