Quotes about "Work & Career"

Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?' ”

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to. ”

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain. ”

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training. ”

Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have. ”

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport. ”

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. ”

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. ”

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha! ”

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. ”