Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on. ”

Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit. ”

For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries. ”

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different. ”

Everyone has tests in their life. They come in lots of different forms. I had two or three together, which definitely challenged me as a person and as a sportsman. The big thing is how you react to those situations. You want to come out positively at the other end, and that's what I focused on doing. ”

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. ”

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now. ”

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life. ”

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life. ”

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it. ”