Philip Kerr Quotes

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

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

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

I don't want to imagine the time when I have to stop playing.

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

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

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

I have said goodbye to international cricket.

This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio, so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

Everybody asks me, 'Lee when did you know it was time to retire?' I said, 'when they quit asking me to coach.' After the Orlando Renegades, not many people were busting down my doors to coach, so why not do something else.

After 'Frampton Comes Alive!' became a huge success, I really needed to take time off to work out what the hell just happened. Instead, I just kept working.

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

When I'm done with football, I want to be done with football. I don't want to have, Oh, did I leave too early?

Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.

I wouldn't want to finish my career with the number 20 shirt; I say everything with that.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

If one day I leave Shenhua, it will be the day I retire.