Quotes About Retirement

Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.

I wanted to finish at the top of the game and on my own terms. I thought it was the perfect time at the World Cup and to go out at Chelsea. Chelsea and England were immense in how they have supported me in that transition.

I have captained India in two World Cup finals. I definitely want to win the World Cup before I retire.

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

All the people who were needed to be told about my decision were informed. 2021 World Cup would definitely be my swansong. I am looking forward to preparing for the World Cup.

Honestly, during the 2018 World Cup itself, I was saying T20 World Cup was going to be my last.

I always heard my dad talk about playing music right through till the end. He may have talked in the early 90s about how he was ready to get off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn't part of his make-up.

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

I'm not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

I've seen past fighters who don't seem all there anymore, can hardly walk around or look like the Tin Man, they've just been through the wringer.

I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS.

There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.