Andrew Whitworth Quotes

I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.

Mark Hughes played until he was nearly 40 at a decent level, and I think I can do the same.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

I could never have dreamt of the kind of career I had, but I was always happy with the ball in my hands or at my feet.

I didn't see myself playing regularly at right-back for Manchester United or making my England debut in that position.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it's a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.

Hopefully, I can stay in the Premier League for my whole career.

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.

Once I finish playing, I'm still a Manchester City player for the rest of my life. That won't change.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

I got the chance to play the sport that I love, which was football, successfully for 25 years. Life has been great for me.

Stepping down after 18 years as the head football coach here at Oklahoma, and I feel like I've absolutely been the luckiest, most fortunate guy in the world.

I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.

I have been very blessed to be given the opportunity to play for Super Eagles.

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

I wanna play until I am 45 if my body will let me. After football, I have no idea.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

I'm thankful that I have been able to play so long and still be healthy. I'm not all banged up and beaten down. I still feel good. But as much as I would love to play forever, I know that I can't.