Quotes About Transition

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life. My mother had five children and a mother with Alzheimer's, who lived with us, so I imagined that she had a lot to do.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

The day Tarek and I officially started dating, which was October 9, 2006, we moved in together.

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

I didn't feel ready to leave home, because it went from no freedom to all freedom. And I was like, 'Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm doing in college.' There seemed to be no like-minded people where I was... I didn't have a clan. I didn't have a choir... There was no safety net.

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

You can't go into Youngstown, Ohio, and tell everybody they're going to be retrained and go work for Google or Apple.

I'm no longer the head football coach at Ohio State.

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and I went to college at Boston University. I majored in film. Then I came out to Los Angeles.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.