Stedman Graham Quotes

I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

Too many guys don't know what to do with their lives after boxing. I was lucky because I had two managers who didn't trust each other, and so they were always making sure where all the money was, and because of that, so did I.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

I'm not complaining. I've made a very good living from boxing, better than any living I possibly could have done. Having said that, you don't live the rest of your life off the money you make in boxing. You still have to create positive forms of income.