Neville Quotes

Til I am getting my choice of work, I will keep working.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

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

You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

My generation were all careerists.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I regard office as not an end but an opportunity.

Coaching jobs are far and few between; you try and get into the right situation and take advantage of it from there.

Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

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.

It's a game that I love and I want to continue to play. I know that I'll have a job somewhere. You've just got to go out there and put your best foot forward.

If you work hard, no career should be off-limits.

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.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.