Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.
If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.
I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.
I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
My skating career won't last forever.
I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.
The good thing about radio is that it's the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It's something you can do as long as you want to do.
You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.
I've been in WWE for 22 years, and that's a long time, and I still think I perform at a high level.
The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.
Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I've been working in cosmology since 1964.
Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.
I was a professional at Norwich for 10 years and associated with the club for nearly 15.
You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.
Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.
I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.
People think I played 10 years. I only played 68 games.
To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.
I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
I retired and came back in '97. Woo! I mean, come on! I don't know, man. A six-year layoff? That was crazy! My career was relatively short, whether you look at either its length in years or the number of fights I had. But it was brutal.
My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.
As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.
With wrestling, you don't have that great of a window if you're a woman. So for me, I'd say around 30 to 35 is where I'd be like 'OK, I'm good.' But if I haven't accomplished everything I've wanted to and still have a chance to, then I'm going to keep doing it.
