I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.
In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.
There's more to life than basketball, and at some point, it's going to end anyway.
I'm very aware of how quickly my career could end.
And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.
All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.
I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'
I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.
When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.
Unfortunately, the life of a player is not forever.
We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.
