Chris Borland Quotes

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

When I left HP, I thought about sitting it out for a while.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

You know what, I stopped doing 'Mind of Mencia' because it got hard, and there was a lot of fighting, and it was just time to move on.

I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

Ultimately, nobody can decide for you that it's the right moment to quit your job, just like nobody can decide for you that it's the right moment to fall in or out of love.

I don't see myself going back to 'Strictly' as a professional in the same capacity as I started. But I'll definitely keep dancing.

I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

I'm not wrestling anymore. I'm out of that part of my career.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

I had my foot in both worlds. I knew what I didn't want, and so I had to make a choice, just like N.W.A. made choices.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.