Carl Crawford Quotes

I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as perhaps it should have after that first 'Oliver!' success, but then again I was never really intending to have a career in the professional theatre in the first place.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.

If you could just turn pro and go immediately to the PGA Tour, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works. And that's not the lifestyle I want.

I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

I don't think I ever would have imagined having this career.

I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.

I became a Christian at about 26 years old as I was going through the process of playing Arena football and trying to get back into the NFL and pursue my dream.

When I left college, I just thought I could play tennis to delay getting a regular job and go there and try to make ends meet. But it's been a very different experience for me, fortunately.

The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.

I never, ever dreamed that I'd play in the NFL.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.