Shane McMahon Quotes

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

I had four great years at Palace but just felt it was the right time to start a new chapter of my career.

Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.

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

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

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

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.

A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to make a change, this is the best time.

I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

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

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

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

When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.

Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.