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No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

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

I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

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