Steve Largent Quotes

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

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

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

There is life after acting.

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.

I have so much to look forward to after football.

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

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.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

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 had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

Honestly speaking, I was not really interested in a managerial job when my playing career ended.

Any time you end your career, no matter what it is, it's tough to leave, regardless of if you know it's time or not.

I performed in 4Minute for seven years, and, now, it is time for us to pursue our own goals.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.