Quotes About Retirement

Asked once what he was doing to keep busy in retirement, Hank Aaron replied, "I'm being Hank Aaron.

I used to work at Grand Point Bluff, a retirement community in Keelstone Cove, where I live. I was the director of entertainment. It was my job to plan all the social activities." "And you started making coffins during craft hour?" Jesse asked dryly.

You're middle-aged, Daddy. What are you going to do with the second half of your life? Because, I'm telling you now, if you run through all of your money before you're eighty, don't come looking to me for a handout 'cuz I'll just put you in an old folks' home and go party.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

There was no path from teaching that led anywhere else she might want to go. A woman taught, had kids, retired, died.

Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

Aunt Maud was a schoolteacher during her working life. For forty years she taught in the white public schools in New Orleans. English was her subject, mainly, and in retirement, genealogy became her vocation. She was quiet and inward. Maud never married, she had no children. Our ancestors were her offspring.

Ease and enjoyment must not be the end of Christian retirement, but penance, labor, and assiduous contemplation; without great fervor and constancy in which, close solitude is the road to perdition.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

It's easy to forget about someone who has left an organisation and assume that because they've retired, or because their most fruitful years are behind them, they are no longer of any use. Quite the contrary. If the organisation has done right by them they will usually have fond memories of it, harbour considerable affection for it and be very happy to help.

After anyone retires from a position of responsibility and remains associated with the same organisation, it is unfair to your successor to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

For me, being in retirement, it was just having the opportunity to watch other stuff and do different things.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

For me it's just amazing that I grew up watching Tim Duncan and KG and Kobe and Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson and all those guys and now it's like, 'Man, I can't believe they actually got old.' It's like they actually walked away. It's crazy to think about, but the game has to keep moving.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

I said I'd do a 'Shotta Flow 6' featuring Lil Wayne. That's the only way I'd come out of 'Shotta Flow' retirement if Wayne hop on the 'Shotta Flow.'

As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I'll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.