Quotes About Retirement

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.

I would have loved to have had a farewell match, and would have wanted the DFB to make that offer. But certain people did not plan that for me. I have to accept that.

The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.

You don't play basketball for 20, 30 years. You only play, if you're lucky, 10 years. So that is my time.

I'm not coming back to play basketball for any financial reasons.

It's one of those things where it's not something you want to do; nobody wants to retire from basketball. You want to play basketball forever. Retirement is admitting to yourself and everybody else that, 'I can't do this job anymore.' For me, that's not a celebration.

I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

I can't play football forever.

I can't play football forever, I am not a greedy person.

The world is not going to come to an end because I'm not going to play football anymore.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.