Quotes About Retirement

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.

I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

YouÂ''ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I donÂ't miss anything.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up, Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.

In a year, fewer than three hundred doctors will complete geriatrics training in the United States, not nearly enough to replace the geriatricians going into retirement, let alone meet the needs of the next decade. Geriatric psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers are equally needed, and in no better supply.

Del Webb, an Arizona real estate developer, popularized the term "retirement community" in 1960 when he launched Sun City, a community in Phoenix that was among the first to limit its residents to retirees. It was a controversial idea at the time.

But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion.

Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

But, as the saying had it, old professors never die, they merely lose their faculties.

I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire!

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.