Quotes About Perseverance

I want retire at 45 and have a 24-year-career. I feel I can do it.

I always said, as soon as I stopped loving this sport is when I probably will retire.

I put everything I can into my announcing, and the moment I can't perform physically, vocally, then it will be time for me to retire.

I never retired.

If I break your ankles you need to be over here with me... retired.

I retired once a couple of times.

I don't want to retire, because you stay retired for an awfully long time.

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

I have been blessed being married to the same woman for 61 years. I honestly believe that if I retired, we may not make it to 62.

Why haven't I retired? I love this game too much.

As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.

Bradley Wright-Phillips

I retired one year in 1959. But then I realized I wanted to play more.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

I don't believe in retirement.

There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.

I expect to work for as long as I can. I can't imagine retirement.

I never think about retirement or anything like that.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

I'm never retiring.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

I'm not retiring.