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Quotes About Retirement

He has three master's degrees and recently retired as a major after twenty-eight years in the United States Air Force.
~ Tyra Banks
I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!
~ Valentino Rossi
Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disagreement about how their mother, my grandmother, should live. My father thought a retirement home. Ágota wanted to be paid to take care f her. The argument didn't help anyone. In the end, my grandmother died anyway.
~ Vendela Vida
Many men who had spent their working lives in the East were terrified of going home to England and living on a pension. Gone were the spacious home, the servants, the ponies, the cars, and the memberships in every club. But
~ Unknown
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
~ Omar N. Bradley
Ride it when you retire.
~ Terry Bradshaw
I'm retired from the daredevil business.
~ Felix Baumgartner
I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
~ Ethel Merman
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.
~ John Hurt
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
~ Shirley Bassey
An annuity is a very serious business.
~ Jane Austen
But there were reports that Jiang and other members of the Old Guard were resisting retirement, and experts said that the Beidaihe meetings would be the first battleground of the political transition. Communist China had never had an orderly succession—for half a century, every transfer of power had involved coups or power struggles.
~ Peter Hessler
One reason bonds are so popular is that elderly people have most of the money in this country, and elderly people tend to live off interest.
~ Peter Lynch
And as in any line of business, a succeeding CEO who couldn't make a bygone cock-up look like an opportunity missed wasn't fit for management, and should take her retirement package, her annual bonus, her golden handshake and her non-disclosure kickback and tiptoe from the boardroom in disgrace.
~ David Hewson
I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.
~ Sebastian Coe
When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
I know it's hard when guys leave the game. They're sitting there analyzing, and they're getting itchy.
~ Gilbert Arenas
I've been very, very fortunate. I don't need to work another day in my life. I have all the security I need.
~ Stan Van Gundy
I just felt like I didn't have to go back to football. Anytime I don't have to hit somebody, I'm all for it.
~ Spencer Paysinger
I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.
~ Willy Caballero
When I left the army, I left for good.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
~ Horace
A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early years of his retirement, with wonderful opportunities for golf.
~ Hugh Brogan