Quotes About Career

Ultimately, I decided to go pro because that is what makes the most amount of sense for me.

Going pro out of high school maybe won't work for everybody, but I know that wherever my career goes I'm happy with the choice I made.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

Only having a short dose of an NBA career, my entry into pro basketball started in 2003 and ended up being an entry way onto the world of business.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

It is a difficult decision, either to turn pro or stay amateur.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

I hate to admit it, but my family was on the back burner for a good part of my career. I was so engrossed in what I was doing that I took my VCR home, ate dinner, went to my room and watched five games. Four days after the Pro Bowl, I'd be at the gym. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Football was my way out.

Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.

It's been a dream of mine to play in the States ever since college. Being able to play pro here is amazing.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

I didn't know if pro ball was in the plans for me. I didn't know it was going to happen right away.

I'm not a politician, I'm a pro golfer.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd be proactive about it.

I had an opportunity to work for the US Department of Probation in Buffalo.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.