Jesse Owens Quotes

Hopefully I can take my chances when I get them.

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.

Pippin' was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.

Take advantage of the opportunities that come before you in life.

There's opportunities you get that you want to grasp with both hands and you have to cherish them.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

One chance can make the rest of your career.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Look for your opportunities.

You have to catch the breaks.

You work so hard to get to a level and you need to grab your chance with both hands.

All you can ask for is the chance to win.

What the game gives you, you've got to take it.

Give me an opportunity, I'm going to take advantage of those opportunities.

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

Everyone gets opportunities that one should make the most of.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.