Quotes About Retirement

Competing is something that once I retire from, it's not something I can go back and do.

I don't miss competing at all.

I don't have any complaints. I cannot say I miss playing for the West Indies that much.

It is complicated, but I've always said that I would have liked to retire at Barca.

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won't be many players like me in the future.

Fighters never realise when it is time to walk away. They can't leave the buzz and adoration that surrounds being champion.

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.

I read Leisel Jones' book. She said she retired at 27 and said, 'Now what?' because swimming was the biggest part of her life. So for me, that's why I'm keeping up my studies on the side even if it's going to take a bit longer than normal, but at least I'll have it.

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs are getting chewed up.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.