Phil Neville Quotes

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

If you would have asked me three or four years ago when I started wrestling whether I would have worked for any other company than WWE in the long-term, I would have told you no.

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

Moving forward, I don't really know what I want to do. There is an opportunity within the media for me, but I would like to give back to football in some way if I'm able to help.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.

My idea is to become a manager one day.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.