In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.
As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
