Retired Quotes

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

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.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

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

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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