Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Quotes

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

In my village there was no chance to study machines.

I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren't a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

My world is kind of small.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places.

In this game you only get a few opportunities.

It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.