Quotes About Career

There's some truth that roles for older women are harder to come by, but it's wrong for actors to monopolise the ageist thing.

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as perhaps it should have after that first 'Oliver!' success, but then again I was never really intending to have a career in the professional theatre in the first place.

My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.

Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

I'm not really sure if I will go back to school. I'm getting old! So I'm not really sure if I have time to go back to school to be a dentist. But hopefully I'll be an Olympic gold medalist.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

I wanted to make it clear I wouldn't play in the 2020 season and the Olympics, but don't think it's the right time to put retirement out there.

It will be my fourth Olympics. I don't know if I'll have a chance to play more. I think four is a good number. After 16 years on the national team, I'm not going to get to 2020. It's a little bit too far for me.

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.

I first decided that I could make a career of MMA after I decided to take it seriously and not act like a teenager in some band, but fully commit myself like a professional. Roughly, when I decided to up and move in the middle of the night from Omaha, Neb. to Denver, Colo. for proper training.

If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

When I'm talking about one of the things that define my career and what is most special to me, stats, they are what they are. The bottom line is you want to impact the place you go and the people you're around, and I hope I've done that in my football career, both on and off the field.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

Aamir is a very mature and understanding person. Our relationship has not harmed my career in any way; on the contrary, it has helped me a lot.

I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

I have always stuck to my on-screen image and I have no complaints as I have got some meaty roles coming my way.