When you think about retiring, you’re done. You already checked out.
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else’s was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
I don’t really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, ‘I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.’
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I’ve traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
I remember when I was retiring I said to my kids ‘I promise you I’ll never put on weight’ because people always think footballers retire and eat and drink and put on loads of weight.
I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It’s not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of ’89. The Olympics were July of ’92.
I have no desire to keep playing international Test cricket, and not a day has gone by that I’ve regretted retiring.
I wouldn’t know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.
Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
I really don’t like confrontations. One of the reasons I’m retiring is that I’m tired of hurting people’s feelings.
A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I’m going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I’ve spread through my performance and through the time that I’ve spent with fans.
I’m not tough. I’m just not a retiring violet when it comes to airing my opinions.
I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.
Since retiring from competitive chess, my focus is on education and organising children’s tournaments: I make a point of never separating girls and boys, nor awarding special prizes for girls.
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
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