Jim Courier Quotes

I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.

It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.

I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I do not understand players going to China at the age of 27 or 28. Those guys are at the peak of their career. That is a waste, really. You only get one career. I sort of understand players who are already in their 30s.

Representing England has always been a privilege and my decision to take a break from Test cricket at the end of the home summer was made to ensure that, hopefully, I can do it for a lot longer.

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.

I think United always had a plan for me. They nurtured me.

Players should get the best deals for themselves whenever they can. Football is a relatively short career.

I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.