Quotes About Retirement

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

I'm very fond of Olympiakos, and I would be delighted to end my career in Piraeus.

If I feel like I can't play ball anymore, I'll stop that day. I'm not a fool. I respect the game too much.

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

I was not born when my father retired in 1979, but I watched footage of his games on VHS.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

It's hard to know when to call it a day as a footballer.

I'm very satisfied to close my time as footballer.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

You can't play forever.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'

I retired in Formula One and I think it was the right time, so I'm happy with my decision.

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning while I'm finished playing.

A top-heavy bureaucracy the electorate cannot touch always expands to the system's limits of energy. Steal it from the aged, from the retired, from anyone. Especially from those we once called middle class because that's where most of the energy originates.

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to the Olympics.

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.