Quotes About Retirement

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

I don't miss anything I did for a living.

I don't miss politics.

A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They're real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They've got so much momentum, they're so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.

The India series wasn't the only reason I retired. It was the culmination of 18 months where things had probably changed in my life.

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.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.

Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.

Playing rugby has been my whole life and for me, keeping fit was part of my job. But when I gave up my career, I was determined to keep motivated, and that isn't always easy when you have lost the competitive edge to it.

he was informed that he would not be receiving a pension. "Of course, they didn't tell me that it was because of what I said," he told Torres and Uriarte, "but I figured it out. Twenty-six years of service went down the drain.…"[20]

Baby boomers, who will benefit far more from the Social Security program than their grandchildren, should receive an increase in benefits only if the overall economy grows and the nation's debt profile improves.

But we are moaning about the very lives that we have created for ourselves...We were free to go and retire alone in Goa and live on the beach for the rest of our lives, childless and free. But we chose not to do that. And then we complained.

One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

Disability insurance provides a portion of your income if you can't work because of an illness or non-job-related injury. To me, being over 50 doesn't lessen the need for it. On the contrary, it may increase it. Many people in their fifties are in their peak earning years and building their retirement nest egg. An extended disability at this time of life could completely derail their financial future.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.