Quotes About Transition

I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'

I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

I really thought my racing days were behind me but it is tough to give up something that has been a part of my life for so long and that I love so much.

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

I was always interested in maybe being in Formula E as I said many times when I was still racing in F1.

I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I'll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I've lost that anger, that desire.

I do not want to continue cycling until I am 35. I want to make something else out of my life, too. There are other things besides a bike and racing.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.

When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done my part.

Because it was my decision to stop racing, I feel fine not being a driver anymore.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.

I obviously hope that I can continue my career with McLaren but that might not be possible and if it isn't possible then I need to continue racing.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

You had to be, I want to say 12 or 13 to drag race, but I was drag racing probably like at 8, and then it was overlapping. I was starting to rap, but I was still drag racing around 9 or 10, until I finally was like, 'You know, I don't want to do this no more. I just want to rap.'

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.