Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

I don't want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole 'warm relationship' plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman's stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away.

All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.

People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.

It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.

There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.

After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?

Sure, I've thought about retiring, but in my mind, if you can't sing the song anymore, change the song and sing a different one!

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

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.