Douglas Costa Quotes

I enjoyed every moment with Tottenham. But in one moment, you feel you need to take a step forward, to go to a higher level.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I think you have to recognise where you are as a player. I knew I had to go out to learn - to sit around at Liverpool wasn't going to do me any good.

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

As soon as I signed for the French rugby union, it was just a huge relief, you know, because I was out of Sydney and out of sight doing what was best for myself.

It was a difficult decision to leave Liverpool but I knew it was something I had to do to get playing regularly and improve.

I had good coaches and mentors. They helped me a lot, and I trusted them when they tapped on my shoulder to move to the next level. And maybe I've been smart enough to always say yes more than no when I've been proposed a new and challenging jobs.

I didn't play much for Roma and arriving here at Milan is a step forward for me.

I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already know. I'm always in for new challenges. When I will leave Chelsea one day, it would be to discover something new.

I'm realizing the more jobs I do and as my career goes on that there seems to be a theme of choosing the things I'm most scared of doing in a weird way. I've never really taken a job and not been scared of some sort of aspect of it. It's the challenge of it, I think.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'