Quotes About Retirement

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

The high degree of public skepticism over the use of surplus funds is reflected in a widely cited poll in the early 1990s that found that nearly twice as many young Americans age 18 to 34 believed in extraterrestrial life than that Social Security would exist when they reached retirement age.

In the meantime, his majesty, who has lived in dignified retirement since he came to the throne, has taken up his abode, with rural felicity, in a cottage in Windsor Forest; where he now, contemning all the pomp and follies of his youth, and this metropolis, passes his days amidst his cabbages, like Dioclesian, with innocence and tranquility, far from the intrigues of courtiers, and insensible to the murmering waves of the fluctuating populace...

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

I had once told myself that after my playing career was over, the two things I would never do were commentary and Seniors tennis. Never say never.

had him pegged as one kind of person—he had just ended his second term on the Iowa City school board; he was encouraging his mother, Milly, to move into a retirement community but she was having none of it—he would pull out a surprise. Like the way he stroked behind my knee in a spot so sweet and sensitive, I had a hard time concentrating. We anchored off of Little Cinnamon because the cliff above was undeveloped so no one would be spying on us with binoculars

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.

You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.

For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

Early on, it was real tough for me to stick to my guns and say 'I'm retired, I'm not rapping, don't ask me for nothing.' But I had to do that because I love rapping and I love music, so if I don't do that, you can't be halfway in it and halfway out.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal. Men work longer hours, die earlier, but retire later than women.

Hey, you can't play football forever unless you're Brett Favre or Ray Lewis.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.