Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
I try to make the most of every minute I play.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.
I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.
If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that every time I'm booked for something, I'm ill, and anything - like a TV opportunity - I treat as my last ever one because it's maybe my swansong.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
There are no second acts in American lives.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
Whatever opportunity I get, to make sure I get better, I need to take advantage of that.
Everything I want, I do it like it's the last thing.
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
