Quotes About Retirement

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

I played 13 years. I did quite well in professional football. Therefore, I do not need.

I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor; I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

In America, we make a promise to seniors: After a lifetime of working and contributing to this country, you'll earn the benefit of a secure retirement, good health care, and peace of mind in your later years. To me, that's a commitment we have to keep.

I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't stay too long. I would get out at the top of my career and not be one of those guys who's body had started to go away and sag and look like and old man trying to still make a living.

Our teachers and first responders spend their careers making Kentucky better, and they deserve the secure retirement they were promised.

I think I'm going to be a juggler when I retire from the promotion business one day.

I've made it very clear to you all that I will never again fight for this promotion, the U.F. Circus. Fixed fights, and I can prove it!

The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

To those state and local government employees who care deeply about this issue, let me be crystal clear: Under my watch, your IPERS is safe. It will not change; it will be protected; and you will have the retirement you were promised. Period.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

To be a retired major seems to me ideal. Too bad it's not possible to have eternally been nothing but a retired major.