Why do some athletes have a hard time retiring?
“Because that has defined their lives since they were kids. I don’t think that it even pertains completely to athletes. I think that it’s an unknown time for a lot of people to whatever they have done for a profession throughout their lives. There’s an unknown on the other side of that and for an athlete, especially a successful athlete, it’s a tremendous life-changing experience to walk away from what has defined their life for so long.” How will this deal be different than what Bill Elliott and Terry Labonte have done? “There’s no guarantees in this business, but there is a lot of strategy in this thing that most people don’t see. One is that, for example, to drive Boris Said’s car for 12 races, I was concerned that it might be somewhat like that. What I really wanted to do was drive a car that ran full-time and had a full-time sponsor and had a full-time crew and team behind it because that’s your best chance in being competitive. Bill’s stuff and Terry Labonte’s stuff have both bee
