Bonnie Blair Quotes

Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

It was sad leaving 'All Saints' because I was leaving a family that had nurtured me and looked after me for a couple of years, and at the same time that particular storyline wasn't a surprise to me. I knew I was going. It had been worked out very carefully over many months.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not. I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

I'm always sad when a gig ends. No matter how long the shoot, you become a family for the period of time you are together, and then you separate and rarely see each other for a long time after.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.

I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

I don't want to imagine the time when I have to stop playing.

When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.

It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.

The practice days, the walkthroughs, the bus rides - all those things you can't come back to. When you are getting into Year 15, you think about it. This thing is going to come to an end at some point.

I'm going to stop playing football after 22 years.

If one day I leave Shenhua, it will be the day I retire.

I'm sorry to see it end.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.

For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.