Everything Quote by Fran Kirby

When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in…

— Paulinho

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But…

— Roberto Di Matteo

I stopped playing football. And life wasn't easy without football.

— Gianfranco Zola

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

— George Best

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I…

— Charles Forsman

The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That…

— Adam Goodes

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

— Mats Hummels

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

— Brian Bosworth

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

— Sarah Silverman

I was just too young to retire as a 52-year-old. I didn't want to be going out of football after loving it so much.

— Steve Bruce