Nnamdi Asomugha Quotes

I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'

To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

I'm not the entertainer anymore.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

Being in the league six years, things have kind of slowed down for me.

Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.

God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.