Charles Woodson Quotes

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

My government career is over.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

I am a very positive person, but you don't get taught how to deal with the end of your career. Never.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

I was 55 and I realized that if I didn’t leave Congress then, I would have to stay there [till retirement]. I would not be able to do anything else. I left when I still could…. Besides. Congress had become like a Junior High School Lunchroom throwing food at each other.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.