Tony McCoy Quotes

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm not a quitter.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

I made peace with retirement, but when you're a fighter, you're always a fighter.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn't anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, 'I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I'm still on my way, and you'll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.'

When the time comes to retire, I think I'll know. I really do.

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.

When I finally quit for the second time in the summer of 2013, I had accepted that this really was the end, and, having got over that, the move into retirement was a lot easier.

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.