Kemba Walker Quotes

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

As a young player, I never looked this far ahead. I never thought about how long I was going to play.

To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.

As a running back, when you get the ball year after year - and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side - you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can't do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.

To say a player is past it at 29, 30 isn't right.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

I realize in every year I don't win a title, I'm closer to retiring.

You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.

I'm trying to be a franchise player one day.

Some guys go to different teams and as they get older, they just want to ride the coattail of the younger guys. I don't want to do that.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.