Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.
There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
Better to leave before someone else has the idea of sending you away.
I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title belt, why not be one of the smart ones in boxing and get out.
It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
He who leaves the game wins it.
Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.
I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.
I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.
