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“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”

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Author:Robbie Savage

“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

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Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

“If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.”

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Author:Steve Bunce

“Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again”

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Author:Andy Gray

“I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.”

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Author:Neil Kinnock

“I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.”

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Author:Kenny Cunningham

“I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.”

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Author:Bobby Charlton

“I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)”

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Author:Robbie Savage

“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 know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.”

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Author:Michel Salgado

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

Book:What it Takes to be Number One

Source: What it Takes to be Number One

“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.”

“I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.”

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Author:Usain Bolt