Career Length Quotes

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.

Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.

Mary Hart says she meant to stay on 'Entertainment Tonight' for three years. She was on for 29.

If I'm healthy and the Chargers still want me to hang around, I'm going to go until they tell me to get out.

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

[Donald Trump administration] didn't ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

I had a long career that started when I was 17. I wrestled for 20 years, so people forget how long I actually wrestled for.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'

I retired and came back in '97. Woo! I mean, come on! I don't know, man. A six-year layoff? That was crazy! My career was relatively short, whether you look at either its length in years or the number of fights I had. But it was brutal.

I've been playing in Israel since 1971.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

You only have such a short time to play baseball in your career. Whether you play for five years or 15 years, it's a short time in your life, and I think everybody wants to win.

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.