My dad is an ob-gyn – he’s retired now – and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English – I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn’t want to speak anything but English.
It’s not that I’m retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
As a retired football coach, I know a good bit about teamwork and winning.
You are a long time retired. I don’t want to sit there when that happens and think, ‘Oh, I wish I had done that better’. I just think everything I can do, that is always the way that I have been. I don’t want to have any regrets.
There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.
Well, now I am retired I am doing a variety of different sports such as cycling and tennis, and I have pulled out my golf clubs and started golf as well.
The Golovkin thing came up and I said ‘fight me at 172lbs and I’ll think about it’ and he wanted me to go down to 166. He wouldn’t even come up to super-middle and I was already retired by that point.
My dad didn’t want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he’s a retired Southern Baptist minister.
I really want to get involved in football again at some point. I know I’m getting older, but my life has just turned out a different way after I retired from football.
My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.
Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.
When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that’s where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia.
My dad is a retired headmaster and my mum is an ex-teacher. I was taught by both of them.
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I’d go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I’m now resigned to the fact that this won’t happen.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
Let me continue to try to set the record straight: I never retired.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn’t go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.
My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian – she retired after 30 years – and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
I’ve retired so many times now it’s getting to be a habit.
For the first three months after the U.S. Open, I had retired and nonretired in my head almost every week. And there was a while where I was done. I had gotten it through my head that I was done, when I was just trying to get my normal life back.
I’m an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn’t tell you.
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can’t just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I’m not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there’s a lot who can’t. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
I didn’t realise how tightly wound I was until I retired because I would think about racing pretty close to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I really focused.
I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?
In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I’m not the sort of person who likes to be an exhibitionist.
Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn’t done with basketball yet, and I’m still not done.
Many stories come from the dressing room that one doesn’t speak when you are playing but can do once retired.
Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she’s in her mid- to late 70s.
Whenever I go to England, I’m on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that’s where Sherlock Holmes retired.
Live performance really terrifies me. I haven’t done it, really, in years. I think that’s why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.
When people don’t hear you on the radio they think ‘maybe he retired.’
My stepfather, Steve Mallonee, is a retired Miami Beach firefighter, loved and adored by many. After numerous years of heroic work, saving lives through fire and heavy smoke, he has developed a very fatal lunge disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis.
I’m doing a little consulting. I’m somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
I’m officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
My two things I always said is, No. 1, I’d be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I’d be retired by the time I was 30.
I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title belt, why not be one of the smart ones in boxing and get out.
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I’m retired and I am very happy.
I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, ‘Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can’t you?’ I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn’t his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.
I don’t know much about football but I know when Alex Ferguson retired this guy called Moys came in and he was doomed to fail. He could have been the best manager in the world, but karma tells you that after that prolonged success you’re always going to have problems.
Prince Philip had formally ‘retired’ in the summer of 2017, a couple of months after his 96th birthday, because the Queen encouraged him to do so. She wanted to stop him ‘pushing himself all the time’. She had become anxious about him.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
I’m always announcing my retirement. I’m still not retired.
I don’t think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we’ve lost it’s the end of the world for me but he will say: ‘I don’t think you realise – you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.’
Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.
My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.
Football players are constantly talking about their workouts, trading secrets, helping each other become the best players they can be. Now that I’m retired, it’s no different.
I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, ‘He’s not as good as he used to be.’
My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we’d struggle.
I’m retarded – I mean I’m retired.
Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can’t do it.
