Retiring Quotes

Retiring is getting ready to die.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not retiring.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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