Riddick Bowe Quotes

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

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

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

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

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

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

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

Too many guys don't know what to do with their lives after boxing. I was lucky because I had two managers who didn't trust each other, and so they were always making sure where all the money was, and because of that, so did I.

Sure, I've thought about retiring, but in my mind, if you can't sing the song anymore, change the song and sing a different one!

Boxing life is very interesting life; it opened many doors for me around the world, but now I am ready to invest my energy and my experience and my power for the future.

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

When I finally quit for the second time in the summer of 2013, I had accepted that this really was the end, and, having got over that, the move into retirement was a lot easier.

I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

Wrestling is all I've known since I was 17 so it's time I let myself focus on other things and explored other parts of myself.

I did what I always wanted to do. Wrestling. - conquered that. Can't physically do it anymore. So now what? Maybe I'll paint. Maybe I'll write another book. Yeah, I'll try this acting thing and now actually concentrate on it and try and get better at it and take classes and get coaching and give it a shot.