Post-Football Life Quotes

I've put football behind me.

I can't play football forever.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.

When I'm retired someday, when I'm done playing football, that's when I'll be relaxing and look back at some things.

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

I have so much to look forward to after football.

I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football.

I do think about them things, life after football. What type of person I want to be.

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

I'm conscious to know and understand what's going on with the game and what comes from the game and what's life after football.

It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have won four Super Bowls, they still have difficulty with that transition. They believe they're not ever going to do anything that important again.

I'm going to be looking to get out like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens.

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.

Life isn't just about football. The adventure starts when you finish, and I'm looking forward to that.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. You listen to people who have finished and nothing replaces playing, but I'm still excited about not having to put my body through what I've put it through. And not feeling the disappointment that I feel.

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.

Football is always going to be a means to an end. The physicality of the game - your body can't hold up. There's life after football, and I do worry. I don't want to put myself in jeopardy. I probably need to be more cautious, but this is me. It still isn't going to change the way I play.