Steve Clevenger Quotes

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

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

Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

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.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

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

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

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.

It's so hard to get into this industry. There are so many people who are so talented, and they never get those opportunities.

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 opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

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.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

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.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.