Top 199 Retire Quotes

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

I don’t think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: ‘I don’t want to do this. I want to get away.’ They said: ‘Just grit your teeth for a year. Then you can have your break. And if you want to retire, you can retire then.’ I was in tears. I just hated it.

For me, I’m smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don’t really retire.

You don’t quit in sports. You retire. You don’t get to quit. It’s not an option.

To have Kobe retire as a Laker, that to me is really important.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Of course I can’t retire on a win – but then, I can’t retire on a loss either.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I’ve watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

Sure, I could retire anytime. I don’t need to work for money. But retire to what? Sitting around the pool reading? Or even trout fishing. I love trout fishing, and I go every time I get a chance. But a man with pride in his profession need to work.

Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

I don’t read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I’m like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Retire? I will never retire.

I want to walk away from football when I retire and say, ‘I gave that everything,’ and then I will do something else and give that everything, because that’s me. That’s the way I am, and I will do that.

I love my fans, I love my music – I have no reason to retire.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It’s no good saying you’re going to have children for 15 years and then you’re going to retire and have hobbies, because you’ve got 40 more years to go after 60 and you’re in good health until 90 or something.

Actors can’t retire. What would they do?

Why should I retire? I’m like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

Why retire from something if you’re loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you’re blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on ‘Hot in Cleveland?’ Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

When the founders retire, it’s always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

Whether I retire tomorrow or in 20 years, I just want to get as much out as I can. But with that, I have an understanding that basketball’s not forever.

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

I tell her all the time I’d gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it’s not the most important thing at all.

I love my job. What would I retire to?

I guess I’m afraid to retire because I don’t know what I would do. I don’t know what my talent is. So I don’t know. So maybe I’m afraid to stop, but I’ve got to stop.

The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I’ve been aware of that; that’s why I’ve stayed and haven’t wanted to retire and come back – because you skip a beat.

When we all retire it will be the happiest day of her life. She’s proud of what we’ve all done but she doesn’t enjoy it. Most mums of boxers only have one to worry about – but she’s got four.

I don’t know the right way to retire.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I don’t intend to retire.

Most people don’t hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don’t want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on ‘Sesame Street,’ and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let’s retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today – and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it – is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it’s time.

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again – a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

When you retire, you don’t get fat and old. C’mon: it’s like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that’s when they die. You gotta keep moving.

I retire every time I’m done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it’s fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I’m tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

After I retire I don’t want to say ‘I could have done this and that.’ I just want to give it all while I can.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

I’ve been happy to have been here since my first day, and I’m going to be happy to retire as a Cardinal because this organization means a lot to me and this city means a lot to me.

I’m happy to be with this organization, and I hope to retire as a Yankee.

I doubt I’ll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.

I’ve always said I never want to wear another uniform. I’ve always said that I owe it to the fans to retire as a Packer. I feel like I can still play, but if I can’t play for my organization, then I can’t play for anyone else.

From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal. Men work longer hours, die earlier, but retire later than women.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

It’s not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I’m not a quitter.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

Everybody asks me, ‘Lee when did you know it was time to retire?’ I said, ‘when they quit asking me to coach.’ After the Orlando Renegades, not many people were busting down my doors to coach, so why not do something else.

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

It’s one of those things where it’s not something you want to do; nobody wants to retire from basketball. You want to play basketball forever. Retirement is admitting to yourself and everybody else that, ‘I can’t do this job anymore.’ For me, that’s not a celebration.

I’m one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don’t think I can retire entirely.

I don’t want to retire before the tournament starts for me.

I’m going to retire as an Eagle.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

I’m never going to retire.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn’t handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.