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Quotes About Retirement

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.
~ Betty White
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
~ Charlie Munger
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
~ Ella Harris
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.
~ Jodi Rell
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.
~ John Elway
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things
~ John Walter Bratton
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
~ Rickey Henderson
Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.
~ Romario
When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.
~ Clive Lloyd
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
~ David Cone
Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come
~ Dennis Bergkamp
I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.
~ LaVell Edwards
I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
~ Louise Mensch
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
~ Marianne Faithfull
I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
~ Paul McCartney
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
~ Robert Maxwell
People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
~ Gail Devers
It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
~ Joseph Jarman
I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
~ Judy Biggert
Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
~ Goran Ivanisevic
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.
~ Jerry West
I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.
~ John Chaney
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
~ Peter O'Toole