David Haye Quotes

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.

I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.

After 114 Test matches, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.

I think that at the close of next November, I ought to hang up the boxing gloves.

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.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

My career is over because I don't have the stage to perform where athletes get the proper respect.

I have so much to look forward to after football.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

I retired in Formula One and I think it was the right time, so I'm happy with my decision.

I know part of me is going to die when I stop playing rugby.

When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.