Dennis Bergkamp Quotes

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.

I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

The pain of retirement means loss.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

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

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

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

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.

It's strange to think that one day you're wrestling, and the next day you're not.

I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past