Alonzo Mourning Quotes

I can't play football forever.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

Unfortunately, the life of a player is not forever.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

We can't all play forever.

The practice days, the walkthroughs, the bus rides - all those things you can't come back to. When you are getting into Year 15, you think about it. This thing is going to come to an end at some point.

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

Age gives you a feeling that you don't have forever to win.

It's hard to know when to call it a day as a footballer.

Football's not forever.

What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

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.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

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.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

I've played for 15 years and played in five major tournaments. I know what it gives me in terms of the joy, in terms of the love for the game. But I'm done with it.

I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

My skating career won't last forever.