Alex Rodriguez Quotes

I don't want to go on forever and leaving the sport is the hardest decision.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

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.

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

I couldn't imagine myself retiring from a match.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

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.

I will end my career with Roma.

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

After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.

I have said goodbye to international cricket.

Most of the great players leave the game under their terms.

Unfortunately, everyone's football career does come to an end.

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

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.

I'm going to stop playing football after 22 years.

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

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 can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

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

I don't know how long my body will allow me to compete, but I can't imagine doing anything else. That day will come, and I just hope there'll be a light shining down a path telling me where to go.

I don't want to imagine the time when I have to stop playing.

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