Career Evaluation Quotes

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

I had no great sense of failure. I didn’t come out of the campaign with the sense that I’d thrown my career away or thrown my life away on what was a fruitless, feckless endeavor. I felt that I had made my mark on the pages of history and laid down some markers for others possibly to follow.

If you can have a career as a footballer for 13 years then you're really lucky, but there will probably be plenty of supporters up and down the country saying that I wasn't a top player, to put it kindly. That's for sure.

At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at the end of the day my career will be judged from beginning to end and everything in between.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

An actor is known by his choices, not by his box-office figures.

I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

I know that throughout my career, I haven't always played great games.

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

The fans are the ones that really tell the tale, and I think they speak very loudly about where I stand in pro wrestling. I don't think that there are too many people who would tell you that I don't deserve to be there.

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

I always would hear people say, 'Omarion is underrated,' or 'Omarion doesn't get the props he deserves,' and I always thought that was interesting because I have had a certain level of success.

I wouldn't say I'm satisfied with my career.

You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.

M. J. was M. J. His body of work speaks for itself. We've seen his career, we've dissected his career and had the chance to watch it. That's done.

I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn't define a player's career.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.