Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Quotes

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

My idea is to return to Spanish football, I want to play for a big club in La Liga, that would be great for my career.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

No one was more surprised than me by the success of the first series of 'Line of Duty.'

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.

No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.

It is a great feeling that I am the first Indian to win a gold medal in track event in world juniors.

I want to have records on the field and do things on the field. That's what this is about.

The reality is my career started with a song that wasn't finished and a video I didn't know was going on the Internet. It happened so out of my control.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

My career was prematurely launched. I didn't have a plan.

The movie 'Scandal Makers' did so much better than I had thought. During that phase of my career, the people around me warned me that whatever goes up could always come back down.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

I've always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn't go to parties. I'd be alone.