Red Grange Quotes

I'm thankful that I have been able to play so long and still be healthy. I'm not all banged up and beaten down. I still feel good. But as much as I would love to play forever, I know that I can't.

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

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.

You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

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

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

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

I find it quite sad to see the likes of Evander Holyfield carrying on past their sell-by date.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

A lot of times late in your career, you don't have a chance to win a championship.

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

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.

Maybe I'll quit after my time at Bayern; maybe I will play somewhere else for one more year.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

I can imagine finishing my career at Chelsea.

I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.

I don't have an expiry date. My body is my answer - when I see that I can no longer compete, when my head is not in it anymore, it will be the time to stop.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

I think every athlete is afraid for their career to be over.

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

As I get slower and older, I'm going to shoot more threes.

There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.