Port Adelaide stalwarts Brendon Lade and Peter Burgoyne will retire at the end of the season.
"I just haven't got the passion in my heart, and the hunger," Burgoyne said.
"I've played 13 years of AFL footy and then before that I was playing in the SANFL for two or three years and it takes its toll."
Lade spoke of his successful return to football after twice breaking his leg and missing two years of football.
"It does make me proud but as I said to the boys everyone's got a story to tell, something going on in their life, and it's how you deal with that adversity and how you perform each week," Lade said.
Retiring ruckman Brendon Lade says that if he has the opportunity to coach next season, it won't be at Port Adelaide.
"It would be great to stay at the same club for your whole life. But I had a chat to Choco about if you do want to become a senior coach, and that's your goal in life, you need to get other experiences, see what else is out there and what other people do," Lade said.