It's very humbling to move around from team to team. It shows how fast you can be out of the loop.
What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.
I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.
I'm very aware of how quickly my career could end.
MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn't work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.
Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.
I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.
I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.
