Greg Rusedski Quotes

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

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

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

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.

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!

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

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

Sure, I've thought about retiring, but in my mind, if you can't sing the song anymore, change the song and sing a different one!

I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

After 11 seasons, I retired from football. Four months later I was in Ghana shooting 'Beasts of No Nation' as an executive producer.

Aine had to change her entire routine; my dad had to quit his job, which was painful because he loves to be busy. My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.