Four years ago, McGary at least flirted with the idea of quitting basketball.
If Larry disdained the idea of quitting cigars, he believed that turning to acupuncture was downright kooky.
After all the training, the practices, the games viewed from the end of the bench, he was asked, did the idea of quitting ever cross his mind?
The idea of quitting the bloc, which was once seen as the preserve of a tiny, extreme faction of the party, is gaining growing respectability after endorsement by two former cabinet ministers last week.
Williams had floated the idea of quitting after the World Cup in New Zealand this month but has now decided to make himself available for the 3 December friendly in Cardiff so that he can finish his international career on home soil.
"If you like the idea of quitting your day job and becoming an entrepreneur, that's great but you'll need to find something you will spend more time on than anything else in your whole life, aside from breathing," he explains.
The government seems to have accepted this too, as the idea of quitting together was part of the thinking behind creating Stoptober, the social quitting event held in October.
This led me to the idea of quitting social media.
He ran the idea of quitting his job at Eli Lilly by then-longtime girlfriend Tracy Wilhelmy.
Scores of others have told the press they've toyed with the idea of quitting early, from those at the top of their game (Brad Pitt and Steven Soderberg) to those who we hardly noticed went away (Eden Wood).
