He walked away from the top spot at TD Ameritrade to pursue his football dream.
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Even though he loved a Goldman he now felt was lost, he walked away to protect his integrity.
Lee, 37, was still performing at an above-average level when he walked away from baseball after the 2011 season.
It was clear immediately that his game was over and he walked away disconsolately to be replaced by Rooney.
Then Feaster did something few in the traditional hockey fraternity would ever dare to consider: he walked away from it all.
He walked away with an extraordinary degree of autonomy at Liberty, a nice boost in his net worth and a nifty tax deferral.
The president was interrupted by several reporters in the room and reporters were still shouting questions as he walked away from the microphone.
Well before he walked away as CEO, a still young Bill Gates began engineering an exit strategy and named Steve Ballmer as next in line.
Magnussen was the clear favorite heading into the event at London this year, but he walked away with a silver medal after losing out to American Nathan Adrian.
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He walked away from covering venture capital at one of California's biggest newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News, to run a venture capital Web site from the second bedroom of his Fremont, Calif.
But this is a guy so sure of himself that he walked away from a million-dollar payday when he was barely out of high school, who turned down a billion-dollar offer for Facebook from Yahoo!
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Last year, homicide detectives attempted to question Sloan in Bellingham, Washington, a city near the Canadian border where he now resides with his new wife and family, but he walked away without answering questions from police.
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One of the problems for Skilling is that he walked away with nearly a hundred million dollars, and prosecutors are using that and are really going to use that during their cross-examination of Skilling to beat him over the head.
He then walked away, leaving the uninspiring photographer standing alone in the lobby.
How would you feel if you complimented someone in person and he just walked away from you without saying anything?
But Harrison admits he nearly walked away from the sport and almost gave up on his oft-stated dream of winning a world title.
So how did White become so big that in 2011 he simply walked away from Red Bull, the brand that most action sports athletes are dying to join?
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He became the most famous man on the planet, a hero in a company of heroes, and then he simply walked away, taking a desk job at NASA and retiring two years later.
He turned and walked away from his work, a feeling of satisfaction deep within him.
He then quickly walked away, leaving a knapsack on the ground.
"He told me he had a gun in his bag, and if I turned around and walked away, he wouldn't he would use it 'cause he didn't have anything to lose, " Gray said.
He'd just walked away from a business failure in Florida, running through "several hundred thousand dollars" in a blighted attempt to build cell phone towers.
None of them tried to stop the attack, and nobody tried to take hold of Stan when he turned away and walked off down the road.
As I walked away, he got up and followed me into my apartment building at 63 Wall Street.
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