Jason Kidd Quotes

I have seven kids. I want to watch my kids grow up. I want to participate in their activities. There's a lot I wanted to accomplish beyond football. It all starts with making sure my heart's healthy.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

I was with All Pro Dad, and I was coaching. People recognized me as a coach. They might see my face and say, 'What's going on there, is that something with the Colts or the Buccaneers?' Then they realize, 'This is something with my kids; let me explore.' So I think that helped, that name recognition.

I'm enjoying watching my kids grow and play sports. That's a ton of fun.

I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that.

My dad's a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey.

Football's not forever.

I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

My dad was in the Army, and we moved, I think, eight times before I was in the seventh grade. We landed in Tallahassee when my dad retired from the Army and started working for the state.

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

My wife hates football, and my kids don't really care.

I'm not working in football. Basically, I'm a father with two kids and taking some time for myself. I played for 25 years, and I believe I need some space for myself.

I want to play football for 20 more years. And then coach for 45 years after that.

I learned very early that you don't get time back. I'd miss my children growing up, so that's the reason I retired.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

I love kids, and I get along great with kids.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.