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Quotes About Retirement

I hope to get out before they start football next year.
~ Bear Bryant
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
~ Michael Moritz
What do gardeners do when they retire?
~ Bob Monkhouse
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.
~ Milton Jones
But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments
~ Brian Tracy
I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
~ Phil Rizzuto
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
~ Earl Nightingale
If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.
~ Ryan Giggs
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
~ Bette Davis
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
~ Bruce Jenner
I had never made any plans beyond basketball.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
To fear retirement is to fear life.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
~ Karl Malone
There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
~ Alonzo Mourning
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
~ Alonzo Mourning
I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
~ David Beckham
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
~ Elon Musk
Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far.
~ Scott Adams
Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.
~ Jamie Moyer
Oh.' 'Veneering. The retired judge. Friend, no
~ Jane Gardam
So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell's husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of woman very high up in local government. When Nell was eighty-four Hilda retired and they went to live at a sea-side place where Hilda had had meaningful holidays during the menopause with a woman called Audrey, now dead.
~ Jane Gardam