Quotes About Retirement

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

When I see Wales qualifying for the Euros and Leicester top of the league, I wish I was still playing.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

I've had a couple of people - prominent coaches - walk into an office, shut the door and say, 'What's it like, not coaching?' They're scared. They're scared not to have that. And I'll tell them, 'You know, it's different. You're not going to replace coaching. But there's some normality that's out there, and that's also kind of refreshing.'

I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.

I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.

I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.

I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs - actually not doing anything very constructive. I made one little solo album in my garage.

I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend two or three months a year there.

I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking - heel and toe.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'

I feel like I'm a better person without the game of football. I'm happier.

The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.

I'm a big fan of Barry Sanders and I respect him a lot. He's a guy that a lot of people talk about. He retired early and fans would have loved to see him, like myself, play three or four more years.

When you have raced for 20 years and one day you have to stop, it's not easy, especially when you are hit with big problems.

Sounding bitter is not a good look. Less so if you're retired.

You never know what the future has in store, but if possible I'd like to hang up my boots at Barcelona.

I love basketball and I love playing it, but there will be a stage in my career when I have to hang the basketball boots up, which is why I'm more than happy to have my culture with me.

I never said that I was retired. I never said that I was never gonna put the boots on ever again.

I'm not a difficult person. I just want to enjoy my football until I hang up my boots.