Post-Career Life Quotes

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

There are so many things that I still want to do. My foundation, growing my brand . . . the list is endless. I'm honestly busier now than I was when I was swimming. It's kind of weird, but I feel like more of an adult because I have to do stuff every day. Whether it's checking emails or making phone calls or doing this and that, it's fun for me. It's the start of a new chapter. At times, it is frustrating, but I know it's not going to be easy to accomplish the goals that I want.

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over.

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

I haven't been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.

I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.

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.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

My career has been over since 1990.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

I'm not going to lay about after my career. My wife will work, too.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

You need to come to terms with the fact that you are not an international cricketer anymore and that's certainly difficult to come to terms with. But then I love going to my farm and spending time with my family. Drop and pick up my kids from school and play cricket as well.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

It's a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I'm 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.

When I'm retired someday, when I'm done playing football, that's when I'll be relaxing and look back at some things.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.