Sid Gillman Quotes

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.

Nobody wants to retire from football.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

I can retire from football with a smile on my face.

I can imagine finishing my career at Chelsea.

I don't ever want to be carried off the court.

I will end my career with Roma.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.

I will not play a farewell game with the national team. I would like to thank the federation for expressing an interest. But I prefer to leave football with an official match because I am not a fan of farewell games.

After 50 years as a player and a coach, I will not become a functionary. That's not my world.

How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I'll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.

Unfortunately, everyone's football career does come to an end.

Leaving the stage would pave the way for younger players to come up too.

The practice days, the walkthroughs, the bus rides - all those things you can't come back to. When you are getting into Year 15, you think about it. This thing is going to come to an end at some point.

I'm going to stop playing football after 22 years.

I wanted to end my career as a pro coach and if possible, in Florida.

The first time I retired, only Sir Alex Ferguson and I knew that the last league game of the 2010-11 season against Blackpool was to be my final game at Old Trafford. I was a little bit sad, but I am not one for tears. The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

You're never prepared for the end of a career.