Eric Greitens Quotes

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

When you are 28, 29 years old... you are aware that this is going to be your last big contract of your career. You have to make up your mind: What is it that I want? Do I want to find something new, a new culture, a new league, a new language, new teammates, a new city? And what is it that I need to be happy? What is it that I need to perform?

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].

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

I was 55 and I realized that if I didn’t leave Congress then, I would have to stay there [till retirement]. I would not be able to do anything else. I left when I still could…. Besides. Congress had become like a Junior High School Lunchroom throwing food at each other.

I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting. I came to it rather late - later than most. I just really wanted to try my hand, and thankfully, it worked out for the most part.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.

I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.

Shows I've done in war zones are the greatest. The first time I was in Iraq, I kid you not, I felt so uncomfortable having the troops say, 'Thank you.' It's so deep and heartfelt.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.

As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.