Top 80 Retiring Quotes

When I’m done playing, when I seem like I’m retiring, I don’t love the game anymore.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don’t think about retiring.

My wife’s family kept inviting me to shoot and I just didn’t want to go, but since retiring from football I’ve had more time and I thought… let’s get all the kit and practice.

Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Some players tell me that since retiring they’ve had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.

I’ve been talking about retiring for years. It’s my standard answer to the question, ‘What are your future plans?’ The truth is, I’ll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.

Ain’t no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

I have no intention of retiring; I can’t imagine not doing stand-up. That’s where I started and where I’ll be.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

I haven’t had the time to say, ‘I’m retiring.’ But baseball says, ‘You’re retired.’

I don’t have a normal job, so I don’t consider retiring.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn’t want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn’t retiring – that I was moving on.

I love the game so much. I’ve been penalized. I’ve been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring, and I was dancing with younger dancers.

I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.

There’s this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can’t dabble in art – it’s a life. Being a writer, an artist… is a whole life.

That’s one reason India is an attractive proposition for retiring. Servants are much more reasonable than in England. It’s not exploitation so long as you pay a proper salary.

I’m done. I’m retiring. I’m getting out of the MMA world.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

Well, I didn’t grow up with that word ‘retirement’ as part of my consciousness. I didn’t grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.

It sounds so early – retiring at 28. But I don’t feel it’s that early for me. If you’re blessed enough and you’re gifted and you’re lucky enough, and you’ve got a fortunate career, then you can take that step back. I’m just happy that I did it.

‘Retiring’ – within that word is ‘tiring,’ and I’m not tired. I don’t believe in retirement, really.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, ‘Hey, how come I’m not retiring?’

I’ve interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden… who tend to have a universal picture of what he’s like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful – lots of things that don’t fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

I’m retiring because my time is up.

I’m retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

I’m against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

I remember my first day of chemo as if it were yesterday, hanging up my favorite summer dress like an athlete retiring a jersey. Within a few weeks, my waist had shrunk to a double zero – the size it was when I was in the sixth grade. My cheek bones jutting out. Rings under my eyes. Skin the color of chalk.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Retiring is the easy way out.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just ‘re-tiring’ – put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I’d play past 30 years old. I thought I’d win a few tournaments and then have a family.

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.

It’s too many questions about what I’m going to do, why I’m retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don’t know, a thousand times.

Retiring from international football was a personal decision, and I was very sure about what I was doing. I played for my country for more than ten years, and there were highs and lows. It was a fantastic experience, though, and the most wonderful thing is that it ended well.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He’s shy a quarter of a million dollars. That’s why he’s retiring.

Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

I’m not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

Retiring was hard. I’d spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn’t know what to do.

As soon as I finish one thing, there’s always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don’t have any intention of retiring from anything.

In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with guys who weren’t over yet and guys who weren’t retiring yet. With FCW, WWE were a bit more hands-on with the writers.

In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I’ve had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was ‘retiring’ from ‘Speakeasy.’

It was probably right after I made my comeback – after retiring post-2008 Olympics – when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?

I don’t ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50. He’d say I had to retire to give the other kids an opportunity.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it’s like retiring.

I might feel a little bit empty, and it might get to me for a short time, but I’m hoping to keep my association with football and with broadcasting – I’m not retiring from everything; I’m retiring from the BBC. I’m certainly not going pipe and slippers.