Gerry Cooney Quotes

There is life after acting.

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

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'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

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

It took a few years before I realized there was life after football.

I didn't start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

I have never even considered a future outside the walls of the WWE. However, sometimes life takes an unexpected turn, and while it is the most difficult decision I have ever made, it is time for me to move on.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

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.

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

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

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to make a change, this is the best time.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

There is no point dwelling on the past because each day is a new beginning.