When he stopped playing, he looked at his hands splayed out in front of his eyes.
Why, for instance, did he seem to lose all interest in basketball once he stopped playing?
Willis already had a post-NBA pursuit lined up when he stopped playing for good five years ago.
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So he stopped playing, stopped being a musician completely at that point.
He stopped playing for ballet classes and wrote a piano quintet.
He stopped playing competitive tennis and enrolled in college at 23, abandoning the top level of the sport for six years before recently attempting a comeback.
Mr. Ice has hired three new lawyers and says he's so busy he has stopped playing golf and spends most of his time at the office.
And whatever the band were playing when he arrived, they stopped mid-song, and started playing his favourite, Rhapsody in Blue.
There he took up baseball more seriously and stopped playing the infield.
As a youngster, Jigme Singye Wangchuck stopped playing goalie in soccer when he realized that none of the players dared to knock one past the future King of Bhutan.
He insisted that United boss Sir Alex Ferguson had never stopped him playing for his country but that long journeys damaged his hamstring.
Miller, playing in his 500th game with the Sabres, sealed the win when he stopped John Tavares' shot in the third round of the shootout.
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