Retirement is rarely completely voluntary, instead frequently summoned by injury or illness, a team’s financial mismanagement, or merely the losing battle with age. But there lies a mental block also, an unwillingness among many professionals to continually sacrifice their lives and bodies in pursuit of an elite athletic standard that is continually hel…
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