My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else – I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
If I hear the word ‘retire,’ it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
There isn’t an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.
Retire? Me? I’ll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.
I don’t really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.
I will never retire unless I have to.
I don’t want to retire. I still want to play.
Basketball, eventually I’m going to have to retire one day. Players are going to come in and take my job. But education, I’ll always have my education.
In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don’t want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
I don’t want to be able to just lose the title and then decide I’m going to retire. I want to be able to keep working hard and giving it my all.
I fear that I won’t work in the theatre again. I’m sad about that. But I won’t retire.
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Sitting front row with my little brother, my older brother, and my dad’s wife at the time – seeing 80,000 people at the Citrus Bowl emotionally pouring their hearts out watching my dad retire – I didn’t even grasp what he meant to the industry. I didn’t even fully grasp it until I started wrestling myself.
I had no aspirations after wrestling. I truly just assumed I would retire, grow a big beard, sit on my deck, and figure out what was next. If it was nothing, I was OK with that.
When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.
If I have no goals, I would retire now. I still have many: to win another league title, to win the Champions League, to win the Copa del Rey. To win the European Championships again.
That just seems like a tough thing to do… just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you’re 60, and then you retire.
There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That’s when I retire. But so far, I’ve continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won’t come back.
When I retire, to be honest, my goal is to be a missionary. I plan on going around and spreading the gospel.
When the time comes to retire, I think I’ll know. I really do.
Over the years, when I’ve seen players retire, when you ask them about it, they always say you’ll know when you’re ready, and I think I know when I’m ready. I think I’m ready.
To retire is to begin to die.
The time you are happy to sit on the bench, is the time you should retire in my opinion.
I had always believed that I would retire with Planned Parenthood.
Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It’s a terrible disease. You can’t stop. Of course, I’d like to get off the road.
People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
I’ll never retire.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don’t know why I’d retire.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
I do want to race motorbikes when I retire.
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes – and they’re the wealthiest generation in our country – to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
I’m a performer. We don’t retire.
As cricketers we’re judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who’s just come into international cricket to the day you retire.
I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.
My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
I don’t see myself ever retiring, unless it’s for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don’t see the necessity to retire from anything unless there’s a really great alternative.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
I didn’t make enough money in my sport to retire.
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone – that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I’m happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.
When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.
We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don’t want to.
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it’s time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don’t think that’s true at all. I think age should not dictate that.
I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.
I’m just trying to diversify my portfolio and put myself in a position so when I do retire, the options are limitless.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don’t have to retire.
I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I’d never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn’t be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt… retire?
Before I retire I’d like to play in La Liga.
In politics, you never know who’s going to die, retire, or – in Illinois – get indicted.
But here’s what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn’t going to be a Social Security. There isn’t going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn’t going to be one if we don’t make some reforms to save that program now.
Hey, I’m just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I’ve always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
I would be proud if I can score as many runs as Rahul Dravid by the time I retire and serve the country as long as he did.
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.
