Quotes About Career

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

I enjoy the pro game because it gives me an outlet to combine my intellect with something that I can still enjoy doing. It's better than applying my intellect while sitting in a corner office somewhere, trying to write code.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Playing pro baseball has definitely been a goal of mine.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

I wanted to go pro, but having the option to go to college was important for me.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

After my debut as a pro for Groningen, I was at Eindhoven for two years.

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

I wanted to end my career as a pro coach and if possible, in Florida.

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.

I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.