“I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.” PlayWholePainCareersMinesNormalAthleteKnees Author:Willie McCovey
“You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.” WorldDifferentWholeLevelsClassCareersPlayerMovedInternationalWhole WorldLeagueMaximumDifferent LevelsWorld ClassPremier League Author:Gerard Houllier
“My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.” YearsDoneWholeCharacterTogetherChoicesCareersEffectsContemporaryProducersCurious Author:Michael Douglas
“I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.” PeopleFeelsI CanWholeKidsTodayCareersCrazyConversationRacismCapitalismConnectedSexismFeedingSpectrumHomophobiaSavvyIntersectionalityClassism Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.” WholeCareersEmotionalIntellectualResponseDistinctionArtwork Author:Janet Echelman
“In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.” WholeHurtCareersWifeMy WifeHurt Me Author:Jake LaMotta
“It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.” IfsThinkingKnowsReasonWholeCareGuyCareersCasesGoneSizeDon't CareWhole LifeWhat IfSyndromesGoliath Author:Kevin Nash
“I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.” KindWholeCareersSpringTrainingInvitesSpring Training Author:Jamie Moyer
“What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”” ThinkingLittlesWholeShowsBigsCareersWeekShoesBoxesTheatreShow BusinessLiberatingBig MovieMalibu Author:Anthony Hopkins
“It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."” ThinkingWorldWayWritingWellsWholeActorsCareersMinutesPossibilityMaterialsExpectedComedianAllowingNew World Author:Rob Corddry
“I love women because of their spirit, courage, and the things they go through in the process of family and life and then all the complexities and now the careers of the family and life and the whole thing. But I feel badly for our men in all of our traditions.” MenFeelsWholeSpiritProcessCareersTraditionComplexity Author:Maya Tiwari
“I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.” WritingWholeCareers Author:Mitch Glazer
“I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.” ThinkingWholeUnderstandingCareersPerspectiveProducersMentalityBuyersGood Understanding Author:Nina Jacobson
“Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.” IfsWayFeelsWholeCharacterActorsCareersBuilt Author:Clint Eastwood
“American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool.” PeopleThinkingLittlesWholeStoriesYoungUsedCareersGenerationsStrangeHorrorShameExposedRecognizingNew GenerationHorror StoriesAmerican Horror Story Author:Jessica Lange
“I would rather have come to Baltimore than the Yankees. You look at their situation, they're the kingpin and you want to be that underdog that knocks them off the top. That's pretty much the situation I've been in my whole career. It just makes for a better season when you knock the big guys off the top.” WantLooksWholeBigsGuySituationCareersSeasonsYankeesUnderdogBaltimoreBig Guys Author:Albert Belle
“They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.” PersonsStillsWholeGivenNumbersCareersChangedHundred Author:Lou Whitaker
“I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.” IfsDifferentWholeWould BePerfectCareersHairNosesStraight Hair Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.” FirstsWellsWholeBigsPartyCareersHollywoodAgentsUpset Author:Salma Hayek
“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.” WholeMomentsHappensWantedCareersAppreciateSeasonsDancerInjurySingle Mom Author:Amanda Schull
“I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.” WholeStoriesKidsMotherReadingSoundCareersProjectsCustomersMonstersSellingDramaticNightmareWerewolf Author:George R. R. Martin
“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.” ThinkingWorldGivingLittlesHas BeensWholeAbleBitsWaterAbilityCareersLaughingComedyNiceLittle BitGive MeWhole WorldHopefullyTrickyNegotiatingHopefully Not Author:Anna Faris
“I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.” WholeAbleDiesLeftCareersNew YorkHopefully Author:Hank Williams III
“Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.” Has BeensWholeCareersInvolvedHip HopVideoIceHipsHopsMaryCubesMary J Blige Author:F. Gary Gray
“Seeing the same coverages, the same personnel, and for us to change the whole scenery, and bring somebody else in that’s necessarily competitive, a professional competitiveness, where guys are respecting each other’s careers, but yet are getting better. For us to come out here and a get a win, I think it helped us with those practices.” ThinkingWholeGuyWinningCareersPracticePlayerSeeingGet BetterCoverageSceneryCompetitivenessPersonnel Author:Cam Newton
“The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.” WayMindHas BeensWholeCareersLaughingI've Learned Author:John Waters
“It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.” PeopleImportantWholeMomentsBeautifulActorsWinningCareersEventsExtraordinaryWhole LifeOscarsImportant EventsExtraordinary Moments Author:Sophia Loren
“I have played in the West for 14 years. I played against Dustin Byfuglien a lot. So it's not like I've been out East for my whole career and never played against the guy. That may have been blown out of proportion, I think.” ThinkingYearsMayHas BeensWholeGuyCareersWestEastProportion Author:Chris Pronger
“When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.” PeopleFirstsWholeFeltCommunityCareersSawsAliveGayConcernedConnectionsStartingAidsTreatedStayingDisturbedHivEpidemicsStaying AliveLife And TimeGay CommunityHiv PositiveAids Epidemic Author:Madonna Ciccone
“The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.” PeopleGivingFirstsWholeWantedBeliefSexCareersSacrificeGiving Up Author:John Osborne
“I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.” FirstsBelieveWholeCareersConceptsSightDon't BelieveLove At First SightBelieve In LoveDon't Believe In Love Author:Hugh Grant
“You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.” ThinkingWritingWholeStoriesUsedTurnsThreeCareersNovelHappenedHistoricalShort StoryHistorical Novels Author:Hilary Mantel
“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.” MadeIdeasWholeArtistThreeCareersStagePaintingElementsGood IdeasSkeletons Author:Josh Smith
“I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.” PlayWholeKidsCareersStyleSingingWhole LifeItalianOpera Author:Brittany Murphy
“I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.” FirstsKindMadeWholeCareersComebackLegendary Author:Serena Williams
“The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.” NeedsWholeWalksSecretBehindsCareersWillingDirectorsProjectsRefuse Author:Ruba Nadda
“I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.” SaidWholeFactsShowsActingCareersRolesTvsFameOriginalsSingersComedianLos AngelesTv ShowsThey Said Author:Christian Kane
“My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.” YearsWholeChoicesCareersSupportivePlaying MusicWhole Family Author:Leland Sklar