Quotes About Career

I never had any major surgeries or anything like that. I've had a few career-threatening injuries, but I bounced back from them.

My whole career, I've never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.

I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.

I played until I felt like it. Some have to retire due to injuries or other issues ahead of time. But I played until I was 40 years old.

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't for football I would have played rugby, if it wasn't rugby it would have been basketball and I would have just gone through all the sports.

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.

But I would like to play for sure until I'm 35, if I'm injury free.

I still have moments when I close myself in, but I wouldn't be on the path that I am with the career that I've had if I didn't have a deep understanding of the sense of my inner freedom.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

It's so insane to me that this is my actual job, that I get to come to set and do what I enjoy doing and get paid for it.

The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane.

There has never been a company that has wanted me, which sounds insane.

I don't get insecure and rush to sign movies just to be in the public view and news. That is not the way I am.

Imagine being the kids that don't get the job - you're just not beautiful enough I'm afraid, my darling, now off you pop and be riddled with insecurities for the rest of your life.

My background is inseparable from my work.