Arjen Robben Quotes

When I was younger, I thought I would finish in my mid-30s because that is normal for most players.

I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

As a young player, I never looked this far ahead. I never thought about how long I was going to play.

A lot of us players, if you were to ask them, feel like they have to play overseas. Why? 'Why not? Might as well do it while I can.' For a while, I felt that way - I've got to make the most money that I can. Now, do I feel like I could still play overseas? Absolutely. But I don't feel that pressure anymore.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

Hey, you can't play football forever unless you're Brett Favre or Ray Lewis.

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.