Retired Quotes

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.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

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

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

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

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

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

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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