Joe DiMaggio Quotes

When you no longer feel part of the game, then you have to think about doing something else.

When I was named captain under Mark Sampson, there were a lot of questions about whether I was ready for it. I wasn't a certain starter. There were more experienced players than me; I was only 25. I was trying to nail down a centre-half spot, and it was a difficult situation.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

My government career is over.

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

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

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

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

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

My teammates don't see it, but deep down I find it tough to sit there and not influence big games.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

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.

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.

I will always be grateful to Juventus because they brought me through and let me go when we had different needs.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

There have been times in my football career where I've thought: 'Is this it? Is this as far as I'm going to go?'

When I retired first time around, injury had beaten me, and I hated that. Now I realise I'm no longer good enough. And I can handle that. It's fine that I'm not good enough.

After two years in TV, I realized that I need a break from 9 to 5 routine work. I just wanted to explore and get back to movies for a while.

I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

It's really exciting and also it makes me nervous, because I'm like, "Well, I figured out how to perform this episode, but what if I'm not as good at what they write for next episode?" But that's part of the challenge, and that's what, I hope, ultimately makes me a better actor.

I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not so much as a father or as a friend, but as a boss, as a chef that's to make decisions throughout the day all the time. I just slowly started burning out. Once you lose your confidence like that, you start being angry in the kitchen. I couldn't recognize myself anymore. I started writing the journal. It was never meant to be a book, but the editor at Phaidon read parts of it. As editors do, I guess.