Lee Corso Quotes

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

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn't going to be known as an ex-racing driver.

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

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

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

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

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

After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

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

I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.

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

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

Well, my last year was 04-05 with the Heat, and I relaxed for a few years, and I said, 'Well, what am I going to do?' I've got to do my passion, and my passion is basketball.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.

When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.

You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.