Gerald Green Quotes

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

I'd never thought of going to Japan, but the J-League came to me, and I could see that they wanted me to be part of the project. In the beginning, they said, 'We have two or three teams for you, although we cannot say which ones at the moment, but we want you as a player, as everything.'

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

Things culminate when they have to. Work comes to you when you deserve to do it.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I feel like I'm dreaming. 10,000 points in the NBA. It's crazy.

When a club shows interest and a manager wants you it is always nice.

My dream was to make it in life. I didn't know how it was going to be. My brother guided me toward a wrestling ring, and I gravitated to it very quickly. It seemed like deja vu for me, and I said, 'Wow, I think this might be it.'

I'm just happy to be drafted. It's my lifelong dream. Wherever I end up, I'll be happy.

I'm just happy that I get the opportunity to do the things on the court that I do in practice.

I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly worse destinies than being coach of such a team.

It feels really great to finally be able to have the moment of being drafted No. 1.

My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket.

Basketball has given me everything.

What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me.