Laila Ali Quotes

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

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

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 don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

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

As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.

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.

You know what, I stopped doing 'Mind of Mencia' because it got hard, and there was a lot of fighting, and it was just time to move on.

I've very much moved on and I want to pursue other things. I've done 'Emmerdale,' I wanted to move on and do other things.

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

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

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 retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

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

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.

There is life after acting.

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

I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

All my life, all I've wanted to do was a talk show, and I've done it for most of my life. Now to break away from that is kind of a challenge.