Quotes About Transition

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

Post my stint as a sportsman, I found solace in singing and trained for extended hours in Indian classical music.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

After everything that's happened, I'm sitting here in my last year of college football. I'm just happy. I'm in a good spot.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

Getting the spot of 'Blue Peter' changed the path of my life.

I didn't play the No. 4 spot much at all in Europe.

I definitely would like to run my own businesses by the time I'm 27, maybe, and then come away from the spotlight.

The contrast of being in the spotlight when you're very young and then suddenly not can be really bad for your mental state.

You think the end of my freshman year, from nobody really knowing who I was to skyrocketing onto the scene in the national championship game, there's nothing but good things to say after that. Then you get into the spotlight and it turns to hate.

I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.

Shawn Michaels was around a long time before they cut him out and put him in the singles spotlight.

It all happened so fast: I went from regular girl, an actress trying to make it in Hollywood, to a Cabinet spouse in one of the most polarizing administrations ever. It was overwhelming.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

When I jumped ship from Roush Racing to Hendrick Motorsports, I couldn't believe the amount of personnel here that get along with each other. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people under one roof, where Roush is more spread out and it feels so different.

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.