Career Quotes

My face is my career.

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.