Bill Cowher Quotes

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

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.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

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

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.