Bill Kurtis Quotes

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

Coaching jobs are far and few between; you try and get into the right situation and take advantage of it from there.

I've always been a guy who comes in not being guaranteed a spot and always fighting for a spot. Any time you're in a camp, and you're not a big money guy, you're always going to be competing for a job.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

I have never been interested in specific roles.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

I liked my old job better.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

I still dream about 'New York' mag. It's kind of weird. I dream I'm part-time, and they can't find a full-time job for me. It's usually that I can't find a lead, and I call all my great sources and say, 'Can you help me out?'

Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.

You're always still trying to win a job. That's everyone's mindset: come in here and fight for your job, win a job.

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division I jobs.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.