Regis Philbin Quotes

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

My government career is over.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

Honestly speaking, I was not really interested in a managerial job when my playing career ended.

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.