Michael Ritchie Quotes

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

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.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

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

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.