If you’re going to retire, retire early.
I’ll be that guy who’s 80 years old and still has a job. There is no ‘retire’ for me.
You retire when you are sick and when you can’t do it any more or when the public retires you. That’s the most painful, because that’s the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
I hope to be an actor and never retire.
A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They’re real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They’ve got so much momentum, they’re so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.
I have had more honors than I’ve deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, ‘Well, I’m going to retire.’ But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don’t let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon… I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.
If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell.
When I retire, if people see me on the street and remember me, just give me a smile. That’s all I want.
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
The decision to retire was 100 percent just me, and so you’re never sure how you’re going to feel.
I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
I don’t really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, ‘I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.’
I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.
I’d like to retire at 50 but I don’t want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.
Really, I don’t know what I’d do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
I really think that it’s better to retire, in Uncle Earl’s terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that’s what you’ll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.
I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years time.
I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.
I have captained India in two World Cup finals. I definitely want to win the World Cup before I retire.
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
This is a game that’s going to play as long as you’re playing it. It’s never going to end. It’ll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they’ll be on it too.
There’s a vulnerability in music but you’ve also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that’s a thing I just try to balance.
I can’t retire.
After more than 50 years of broadcasting on ‘CBS News’ and ’60 Minutes,’ I have decided to retire. It’s been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
I’d love to be the Ali of women’s boxing, to retire as the greatest.
I want to be a mom. It’s something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn’t always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, ‘This is a business,’ is unfortunately true.
‘Grandmother’ doesn’t mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it’s over they think we just retire to green pastures. Well, it ain’t so.
If I’m watching my favorite boxer, and he’s just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
I’ll never retire. I’m just using up somebody else’s oxygen if I retire.
Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There’s the next young guy coming up that’s always better than you. So, for me, it’s just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.
There’s no reason why I should retire.
After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, ‘Well, when you retire you can move there.’ But I said, ‘Why should I live my whole life where I don’t want to be.’
I can retire at a good age and still feel like I’ve done something.
To the house of a friend if you’re pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
I’m going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I’ll be on stage telling a story, everyone’s going to applaud and laugh, and then I’ll drop like a rock.
Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn’t want to retire. But once you decide it’s time to move on then you have to stick with it.
God knows when I’m going to retire. I think I’m going to be bored.
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
I think I may not be able to retire.
I’ve got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.
You can’t put off being young until you retire.
Whenever I retire, I’ll still be playing the game, whether that’s at an L.A. Fitness or somewhere else.
I don’t think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That’s it.
We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
I don’t regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
Just because you did something once doesn’t mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I’m not willing to do that, I will retire.
I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it’s time to say goodbye.
