Jean Alesi Quotes

I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.

I am proud of my career.

I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.

I don't want to leave Feyenoord before having made an impact at the club.

I've had a stellar career.

I had a wonderful career.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going.

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10.

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.

From the beginning of my career, I wanted to fight in the United States, and now my dreams come true.

I would have been a frustrated man had I not achieved what I wanted to achieve as a cricketer.

I have to motivate myself every season now to win things I've already won just to build my own legacy and try to end my career as high up as I possibly can.