From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.
On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.
The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.
I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.
I've been lucky in that I've always loved my job.
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
Staying connected to the game and working for ESPN are very meaningful to me.
I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.
I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.
If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'
I really thought about being on one team for my entire career, and that was really important to me.
