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Quotes About Retirement

My predictable stable routine completely changed once I retired. I went from a regimented and vigorous daily training program to a routine where every day was different.
~ Chris Hoy
I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
~ Davy Jones
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER
~ Lori Wilde
Watching the man approach with a strong, determined step, Rosenblatt suspected Gamache was no more retired than he himself
~ Louise Penny
I no longer have it (desire to play).
~ Joe DiMaggio
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
~ Allen Iverson
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
~ Charlie Gonzalez
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
~ Barack Obama
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
~ Budd Schulberg
Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.
~ Tim Kaine
After 18 NBA years, it's hard to believe I'll be playing in each arena for the last time.
~ Paul Pierce
I'm not going to lay about after my career. My wife will work, too.
~ Dries Mertens
I want to make sure I have something I can lean on after football.
~ Derrick Henry
There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.
~ Carl Froch
I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life.
~ Eugenie Bouchard
I don't work to earn my livelihood anymore.
~ Randhir Kapoor
Maradona is Maradona, that's indisputable, but he doesn't play anymore. He stopped playing a long time ago.
~ Mario Kempes
There are only a certain amount of years you can play this game, and it's even a lower amount for a running back.
~ Terrell Suggs
We are not like machines; we can't train as fast after years but I feel really happy and I want to give fans a good fight. When I can't do that anymore, I'll stop.
~ Wanderlei Silva
The main thing for me was that I wanted to be able to decide when my international career would end after 10 years myself.
~ Per Mertesacker
He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enrage Babette, either that or his need to confess it, and she hit out at him - hit out with the backs of her hands, with her elbows and wrists. Old loves, old fears.
~ Don DeLillo
Financial Advisor: "A Plan for Your Retirement" College Alumni Association: "Leave a Meaningful Legacy" Fine-Dining Restaurant: "A Meal Everybody Will Remember" Real Estate Agent: "The Home You've Dreamed About" Bookstore: "A Story to Get Lost In" Breakfast Bars: "A Healthy Start to Your Day
~ Donald Miller
Is this what retirement would be for him? he wondered. Sticking his nose into other people's business whenever he had the feeling that something wasn't consistent in a story? Must every death come in a tidy package before ex-Commissario Brunetti would leave it alone and let people get on with their lives?
~ Donna Leon