Ball player Quote by Mark Schlereth

You know, it's funny, I know a lot of people outside of football in different businesses, whatever it is. And they're in the grind…

— Joel Glazer

I don't believe in retirement because in football there is no retirement. Even if you finish playing, there are a lot of things to…

— Victor Wanyama

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life…

— Dak Prescott

You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like that. I literally…

— Jamie Vardy

So to me, life is more than just money and making it to the NFL. Life's about memories, life is about experiences, and I…

— Kirk Herbstreit

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer…

— Eric Cantona

Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles,…

— Thomas Jones

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's…

— Pete Carroll

You see it all the time in sports when aging stars hang on a little too long. I was an exception, so sure I…

— Jerome Bettis

When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to…

— Michel Salgado

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many…

— Marco Reus

A lot of sportsmen get depression, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people retire and you don't hear from them, but…

— James Haskell