It's all about playing. Your career's short enough as it is.
You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.
I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.
I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.
Football is my priority. It's a short career, and you have to make the most of it, which is why making the World Cup squad is such a big deal and something I will never take for granted.
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career.
There are only a certain amount of years you can play this game, and it's even a lower amount for a running back.
I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.
Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.
I'd say James Dean is someone that's really inspired me. Just the fact that he did only three movies before he died at such a young age, and yet everyone knows who he is. It really blows my mind.
Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.
I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
People think I played 10 years. I only played 68 games.
The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have to look at yourself in that fashion.
I retired and came back in '97. Woo! I mean, come on! I don't know, man. A six-year layoff? That was crazy! My career was relatively short, whether you look at either its length in years or the number of fights I had. But it was brutal.
The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.
Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.
It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.
It's a short career, so I always try to focus, and I want to be in the elite for a long time.
