Alan Hansen Quotes

You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

I can't play football forever.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

I am finding I have to watch what I am doing otherwise I may as well be in full-time football again and, while I'm available if something interesting comes up to take me to the end of the season, I don't want a long-term commitment at this stage in my life.

You know, I have been thinking about this a lot, and of course I had great stress during all this election campaign. And a lot of times, I was ready to step away because I wasn't sure that I had enough strength to continue.

I think as long as I feel good and am able to perform on a high level, I will keep playing because I love football so much. After that, I have many options but haven't set any goals.

The India series wasn't the only reason I retired. It was the culmination of 18 months where things had probably changed in my life.

Yes, it's possible that I will end my career at FC Porto.

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

It's hard to know when to call it a day as a footballer.

In Europe, Bayern is my last club - 100 per cent.

It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have won four Super Bowls, they still have difficulty with that transition. They believe they're not ever going to do anything that important again.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.