Sudden Stop Quotes

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.