Johnny Mathis Quotes

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

You must change in order to survive.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

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 tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.