Career Endurance Quotes

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.