John Motson Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.

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

I liked my old job better.

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

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.

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.

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.

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.

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.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

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

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

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

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

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.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

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