Quotes About Retirement

There will be a time when I physically cannot do this sport.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

I left my sport when I knew I had nothing more to give.

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.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

If you're closing in on age 62 and intend to apply for a former spouse's Social Security benefit, don't remarry. You have to be single at the time you apply.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

Yes, when the time comes for me to hang up my boots, I would love to stay and work with the City coaching staff. It would be great to give something back like that.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.

I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.

Everyone says I should really savour the last year, play as much as possible, really soak everything in. I'd most like to sit on the bench, or, even better, in the stands.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.