Suzanne Crough Quotes

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

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

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

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

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

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

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

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.