Quotes About Ambition

I just want to make $100 million and retire.

I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

I'll be that guy who's 80 years old and still has a job. There is no 'retire' for me.

Who retires before they even get to the UFC? Losers, that's who.

I definitely don't ever see a time I want to retire. Ever.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?

I want to get to the point where I can retire at 21, and my whole family is proud of me. That's the goal in everything that I do.

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted to do something more.

Of course I can't retire on a win - but then, I can't retire on a loss either.

I want to retire as a New York Knick.

I want retire at 45 and have a 24-year-career. I feel I can do it.

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

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.

I had a basic plan for my life. The plan was - 20s: make money; 30s: have family; and 40s: run for something and do politics. When I retired, I wanted to be a teacher.

As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.

Bradley Wright-Phillips

I retired one year in 1959. But then I realized I wanted to play more.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

I don't believe in retirement.

I'm a little young for retirement.

I expect to work for as long as I can. I can't imagine retirement.

I never think about retirement or anything like that.