#stopped

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#could #done #excite #excited #football

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby. ↗

— Fred Davis

#dropping #found #got #heard #him

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #definitely #finger

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#being #energy #establishment #i #interested

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. ↗

— Loretta Young

#career #course #crystallized #determination #resume

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#after #back #got #i #i tried

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#because #fingers #guitar #hurt #i

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#back #band #bands #fortunate #four

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#became #big #diva #holding #holding on