Career Quotes
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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.
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Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
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When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
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In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
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One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult.
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There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
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Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
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The toughest part of my career was at the 2011 World Cup and 2012 Olympics and wanting so much to play and physically contribute - but having to understand and realize that it's just not my time.
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
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I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.
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I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am.
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I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
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My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
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I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!
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If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.
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I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.
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I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
