Quotes About Retirement

I sometimes think since I've retired, sitting in the shade here and feeling the winds shift, I must have been filled with a child dread you could catch somebody's dying if you got too close. And you can't be too sure.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

In 1989 I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

I think every athlete is afraid for their career to be over.

My career is over because I don't have the stage to perform where athletes get the proper respect.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

I don't dunk anymore.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?

The bourgeoisie who could afford to eliminate 'social death' by avoiding retirement, created 'childhood' to keep their young under control.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

A retired bank vice-president named Harry Breitfeller, who lived in a comfortable duplex in Santa Monica with his wife and other relatives, stepped out on the cement porch a little after nine one morning to pick up the mail. There were half a dozen envelopes, mostly bills, in the mailbox, and a whacking big cardboard carton on the porch under it. Breitfeller picked up the carton, thinking it must be something his wife had ordered, but saw that his own name was on the label.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

Neither of us joined the extremely generous retirement plan RAND offered. Neither of us believed, in our late twenties, we had a chance of collecting on it.