Dave Martinez Quotes

I feel like I'm ready to contribute at the highest level possible.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

As long as you're confident in your skill set and what you can do, you're usually good to go.

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

I want to become more successful.

If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of experience at all, so you have to feel the ambition and desire, which is based on a lot of factors.

In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

Juve have allowed me to show my worth, it has provided me with a challenge that has motivated me.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.

I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

I have always worked to start.

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.

There's a part of me that's ambitious.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

Business is my passion.

I've been doing extra work but I always do. I want to feel at my best and I want to be ready when the gaffer gives me the chance.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.