#Career

"God gave me a second chance. I am so very glad with what is going on with my career, but I want to be a success in my relationship with my children."

"Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy."

"Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else."

"Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies."

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

"Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them."

"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."

"I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing."

"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career."

"The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love."

"Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody."

"With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact."

"I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can."

"Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me."

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

"A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible."

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung."

"With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us."