Retired Quotes

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.

Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.