I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I will never retire unless I have to.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.