Myron Rolle Quotes

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it's a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

I can't play football forever.

There are only a certain amount of years you can play this game, and it's even a lower amount for a running back.

Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.

There's going to be wear and tear on your body; that's just the nature of the sport, no matter if you're a rookie or if you're 10 years deep in the league.

There might not be kicking in the NFL by the time I get to 45.

You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

I can't dwell on having a couple drops. It's going to happen - it's the NFL.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

A footballer's career is very short, and I want to finish it in a strong and spectacular way.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.