Quotes About Retirement

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

You know that if you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because when I retire from football, I want to sit down and think I did something good - I won this title, and I won this title. People will talk about what you have won, and that is the most important thing in football.

To be honest, I have no idea what happens after my career.

Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.

When you think about 19 years, it has been a heckuva ride. Physically, I want to be able to participate in activities with my kids, so it has taken a toll. It is time to move on and think about maybe coaching or doing some broadcasting.

I played for 12, 13 years nonstop. That takes a toll on your body.

I'm a former player, I've got a bunch of friends that I played with over the years and I've seen the toll that playing football can have on their bodies. And of course my son was a player as well.

Two old men are sitting on the front porch of their retirement home. One man turns to the other and asks, "Do you still get horny?" "Oh yes, sure I do." "What do you do about it?" the first man asks. "I usually suck a lifesaver or two," the second man replies. After a few moments the first man asks, "Who drives you to the beach?

Inflation is like a moving treadmill. Prices don't stand still — they keep increasing year on year (5.5 per cent per annum over the past 45 years in fact). If you stick your money under the bed, or in a transaction account earning 0.1 per cent interest per annum, then you're doing the equivalent of standing still on that moving treadmill. It's not safe. It's incredibly risky and it will have a devastating impact on your retirement.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

I sent a lot of ladies to the hospital. If you go and look at my record, a lot of the people I knocked out never fought again, or maybe one time and that was it.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years' time.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.