No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

If I'd had it my way, I'd have been a professional athlete, a sailor, a beachcomber, or some other form of hobo, a painter, a gardener, a novelist, a banjo-player, a traveler, anything but a rich man.