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Quotes About Retirement

Not for the last time, Pierpont contemplated retirement.
~ Ron Chernow
the mean government pension.
~ Lee Child
Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.
~ Lisa Gardner
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
~ George Osborne
The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.
~ John C. Bogle
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
~ Yoko Ono
Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.
~ Harold George Koenig
If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!
~ Ernie J Zelinski
One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
~ Lee Trevino
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
~ Lance Armstrong
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.
~ Dave Winfield
I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.
~ Johnny Unitas
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
~ Bo Jackson
I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.
~ Johnny Bench
I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.
~ Bart Cummings
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
~ Sandy Koufax
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
~ Pete Sampras
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
~ Willie Stargell
When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.
~ Randy Matson
I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
~ Lee Trevino
I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.
~ Alexandre Dumas
knew she had a nest egg?
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
~ Douglas MacArthur