Casey Stoner Quotes

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.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

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

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.

My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.