Alonzo Mourning Quotes

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I am not a player anymore.

It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to make a change, this is the best time.

I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.

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

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.