Quotes About Retirement

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.

I hope I help lead my son's high school team to a state championship by the time I'm 45. I don't think I'm gonna have a helmet on when I'm 45.

I will say that when I retire, I will probably do something to help others. I don't know know what it will be... probably I'll get involved in some charity.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

You don't see too many attacking flair players continuing until their mid-30s at a high level.

I always said I wanted to finish my career back at Ajax, but I didn't think I was going to play for so long at such a high level, so that's not going to happen now.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

There's always talk about going out on top, unfortunately for me that means going out on a loss but it's going out at the highest level. I'm happily satisfied and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Football is full of highs and lows, but when people retire, they often say, 'I wish I'd enjoyed it more.'

I think it's hilarious the way Obama is depicted post-presidency. He's always kayaking or playing jai alai like he's some retired athlete or something. Like he wasn't doing the exact same thing everybody else was doing.

a pension is a delayed payment for work already done. This is the most fundamental truth about pensions, and it is almost never said.

a pension comes with it, that pension is part of your pay, part of your conditions of employment.

pension is anything but a gift to an employee. It is earned. And it is set up to profit the employer as well as the employee.

The Sixth Cure — Insure A Future Income

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.