Top 242 Retired Quotes

I’d retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn’t a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.

When I’m retired, I want to be able to tell my kids I played in a European Cup final. I don’t want to have to say I watched one from the substitutes’ bench, then kept getting knocked out in the quarters and semis.

Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

I could have stayed at Southampton until I retired and finished my career there.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

When St-Pierre retired, it brought a lot of enthusiasm to the weight class, and things got shook up.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you’ve already retired.

I don’t think I’m ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

I’ve retired my sneakers for stilettos, baby!

I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching – 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I don’t know where horse riding could have taken me, and it’s something I can always go back to when I’ve retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I’ve done? No.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

When I did ‘Hot Fuzz,’ I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

The teacher’s life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It’s nothing fancy – just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

I was born and brought up in Gurgaon to a middle class family. My father, now retired, worked with the revenue department, and my mother is a housewife. I have two siblings who are both married and have kids. But I was always interested in doing something apart from studies.

I don’t have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don’t think I retired so that I could be on tour.

I retired simply because I didn’t have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, ‘Well, I had a great time, there is the end.’ At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Retirement isn’t what it used to be. It used to be you retired and you disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now you have social media. I keep in touch with all my fans. It’s great.

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.

I’ve spoken to people who have retired once they lost the enjoyment of a long day in the field or going to the gym. If I lose that, it’s time to go.

Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I’m looking forward to pitting my wits against him.

I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they’re having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.

I retired in Formula One and I think it was the right time, so I’m happy with my decision.

If we discover niche services that have been overlooked in our society, we can create many jobs for the unemployed, retired and young people.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain’t retired.

I was re-elected as general secretary with almost 100 per cent of the vote. And I am very surprised by that. Because I am quite old. I am the oldest member in the leadership of Vietnam. I myself asked to be retired but due to responsibility tasked on me by the party I had to accept.

Few men have led a more active life – bodily or mentally – from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years’ business career, from which I had retired.

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don’t want to go down that road. As long as I’m still in demand, I’ll work.

The things that made me were the highs and the lows – that’s what made me the cricketer I was when I retired. And the lows do a lot to give you a real kick up the backside in making sure you never take things for granted.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you’re not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I’m like ‘… retired.’

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, ‘So weird;’ when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I’m so nowhere near that.

When I’m retired someday, when I’m done playing football, that’s when I’ll be relaxing and look back at some things.

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

I mean I’ll be retired from rap, so what I’ll be doin’ in rap will be for fun.

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn’t a child anymore, I wasn’t really a woman yet, and they weren’t really writing scripts for that age.

‘Bullet’ Bob was one of the most important parts of Smoky Mountain from the start. He was a retired wrestling legend and talked better than anyone on the roster.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

I never want to see active or retired players ever struggle. The basic human being in me wants to see guys leave the game as healthy as possible.

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

I give credit to my mom for inspiring and encouraging me to take sports seriously. She was a professor of biochemistry and at the age of 60 when she retired she started trekking.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

It probably won’t sink in until I’ve retired from running but I’m a much better athlete than two years ago.

My grandma passed in ’78, and that’s the year I started recording. It’s also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it’s funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

I love the game of football. I’ve been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it’s all about the mental part of it now. It’s just coaching and teaching the game.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

When I retired I was done and it was instant relief. Instant.