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Quotes About Retirement

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
~ Joe DiMaggio
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
~ Bobby Bowden
You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.
~ Larry Miller
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
~ Debbie Stabenow
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
~ Gene Perret
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
~ Mitch McConnell
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
~ Saul Bellow
The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
~ Jack Nicklaus
I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
~ Joe Biden
I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.
~ Joe Miller
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
~ Joe Montana
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
~ Joe Moore
Until the day that "the Great Judge proclaims: / 'The last addict's died,'254 " the poem said, "Then—not till then—may you be retired.
~ Johann Hari
We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.
~ Ken Buck
One of the best years of my life was the very last one of my career. Playing for Rangers was my dream and it meant everything to my family.
~ Andy Gray
Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
~ Patrice O'Neal
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
~ Frederik Pohl
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.
~ George W. Bush
You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement
~ John Walter Bratton
I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.
~ Martina Navratilova
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.
~ William Shakespeare
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
~ Zicheng Hong
Lydia's never met a working translator as old as this before: usually they burn out, go into teaching, change careers (e.g., become drug dealers) or just retire.
~ Eddie Robson
Social Security is neither social, nor secure.
~ Edw. C. Young