Leaving Quote by Curt Schilling

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

— Anonymous

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There isn't a professional athlete that doesn't want to play 12, 13 years.

— Jason Collins

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

— Andrew Bogut

Professional sports is a business.

— Lynn Swann

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

— P. T. Usha

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

— Neal Stephenson

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

— Mark Cuban

Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your…

— Abhinav Bindra

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten…

— Alberto Juantorena

Athletics have become professionalized.

— Socrates

I think athletes in general, your days are numbered. Any time you can kind of learn and grow from an entrepreneurship standpoint and ownership…

— Mark Ingram II