Quotes About Transition

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.

I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.

Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.

Hockey has changed. The game has changed. You just have to be ready for that.

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

I played hockey until I was 13 or 14 years old.

I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.

It's kind of funny the way it happened - the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.

I believe God gave me the ability to play hockey, and I was helped by dozens of individuals along the way, so it's not just up to me on when it's time to say goodbye.

Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.

I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.

I grew up in a small holding in Staffordshire near Tamworth, and we had a few ponies and chickens, ducks and dogs and my mum used to do horse-riding lessons, but we moved to Birmingham when I was 13.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.

The empty room of someone who has gone to college, or is on holiday, is not much different from someone who has just died. We live in rooms. Then we don't.

I enjoy the holidays, but I'm back to work pretty quickly.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.