Quotes About Retirement

My goal from Day One has always been to be proud of myself when I retire, whenever that may be and whatever I may have accomplished to that point.

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

I remember the night in December 2005 when the Bulls retired my number and will never, ever forget it.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

Once I retire, I would definitely love to be a DJ. That would be fun.

After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

I gave up at the right time, scoring a goal against Derby. I didn't hear anybody shouting, 'Please stop, you are getting too old.' That's a success. And I don't want to come back for the sake of it.

I'm not one of those people desperate to get in the ring again.

As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn't going to be known as an ex-racing driver.

To retire is to die.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

Economically Targeted Investing, or ETI, refers to the practice of selecting investments, in part, for their collateral benefits in addition to the investment return for the retirement plan.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

Social Security is a tax.

Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.