Retiring Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not 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.

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

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.

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

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

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.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

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.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

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

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.

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

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.