Decision Quote by Gabriela Sabatini

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set…

— Ian Botham

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

— Cathy Freeman

Retiring was very tough, it's tough at the best of times. Nothing can prepare you for it.

— Ryan Mason

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

— Gerald Green

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

— Tanya Tucker

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

— Susie Wolff

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…

— Daley Thompson

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

— Regis Philbin

Ain't no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

— Rasheed Wallace

I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to…

— David Beckham

When I finally quit for the second time in the summer of 2013, I had accepted that this really was the end, and, having…

— Paul Scholes

I didn't want to retire in the first place.

— Matt Hughes