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Quotes About Retirement

Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.
~ Richard Coles
I'm thankful that I have been able to play so long and still be healthy. I'm not all banged up and beaten down. I still feel good. But as much as I would love to play forever, I know that I can't.
~ Julius Peppers
I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I would have definitely loved to have continued with the French national team. Having said that, perhaps when I left, it opened the doors of the national side for young talented players.
~ David Trezeguet
I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.
~ Juan Mata
A lot of people think the hardest thing about this game is making it into this league. As you get older and you accomplish most of your goals - all of your goals - you find out the hardest part of this game is walking away.
~ Ben Wallace
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
~ Karen DeCrow
If I was counselling an individual, and my purpose was to help that individual, the most important thing would be that you should save more. Because don't expect that your retirement will follow those trajectories that some advisers are telling you.
~ Robert J. Shiller
When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
~ Fernando Torres
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
~ Ted Deutch
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
~ Jack Lew
I retired from the army." Her eyebrows shot up. "Like my uncle!" "No, not like your uncle. Like a warrant officer, helicopter pilot. Jack said your uncle is a retired three-star. A whole different thing, kid." She grinned at him, but her cheeks took on a little flush. "Just remember, he's retired. He really isn't in charge anymore." He
~ Robyn Carr
I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.
~ Romario
We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
~ Ron Chernow
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
~ Ron Chernow
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
~ Ron Lewis
Somewhere in retirement, Haywood Hansell saw that announcement in the newspaper, and I'm sure he wondered why he didn't get an award as well for the effort he put toward fighting a war with as few civilian casualties as possible. But we don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions, do we? To the victor go the spoils.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them
~ Frank Eberhart
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
~ Gene Perret
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Old teachers never die, they just grade away.
~ Henny Youngman
Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
~ John Anthony West
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.
~ Gene Perret