Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.
In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.
I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.
I hope to play until I'm, like, 38 or something, and that's a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family's part.
In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.
Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.
Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.
No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.
You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.
