Katarina Witt Quotes

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

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 actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

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

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.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.

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.

When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.

I never thought I'd be an actor.

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my life changed. Out of nowhere, I decided to be a fighter.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

I never thought my choice to leave the NFL would lead to 'Face the Nation.' When I first thought of quitting, I cringed at the notion of becoming a football safety advocate. I was making a personal decision; I never set out to influence others.

I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

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

When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

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