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Quotes About Retirement

My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.
~ Ben Askren
About 10 percent of the time, I miss 3 to 5 percent of the game. I look back, and I'm happy that I played. I'm not wistful. You miss big games. I miss the locker room camaraderie. Sometimes I miss the lifestyle.
~ Chris Borland
I am happy with the way I shot and ended my career.
~ Abhinav Bindra
I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.
~ Jim Harbaugh
Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away.
~ Mort Walker
My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
~ Wanda Sykes
I don't want ever to be champion again.
~ Boris Spassky
Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.
~ Tito Ortiz
If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.
~ Rasheed Wallace
I believe if you can't play at a championship level, it's time to stop playing.
~ Mike Webster
I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.
~ Shawn Porter
My focus is on training and championships. I will look at business after retirement... maybe 20 years later.
~ Hima Das
I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.
~ Matt Barnes
I won't be chasing down players who have retired. I only want players who are 100% committed to Scotland.
~ Steve Clarke
I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
~ Mark McGwire
I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
~ Catherine Martin
Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over.
~ Jean Chatzky
Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Americans reach retirement without enough savings to supplement their Social Security benefits.
~ Tom Perez
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.
~ Lloyd Blankfein
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
~ Sander Levin
Wrestling is how I made my living and supported my family, but it's over. I don't want anything to do with it anymore.
~ Bruno Sammartino
I don't think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we've lost it's the end of the world for me but he will say: 'I don't think you realise - you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.'
~ Mark Noble
I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.
~ Donald Driver
I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.
~ Martin Fleischmann