Retiring Quotes

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I'm not retiring.

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

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

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.