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Quotes About Retirement

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.
~ Paul Newman
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
Whatever your income level is, save as much as you can - up to 20 percent, but more if you can - and invest it. Put that into an IRA; put that into a brokerage account.
~ Sallie Krawcheck
My kids go to school in Italy and after my playing career is over I want to spend time with my family.
~ Javier Zanetti
If you were to ask me, I think my jersey will be hanging in the rafters when I retire in Sacramento.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.
~ Brett Favre
For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.
~ Stephon Marbury
To have my jersey retired, it symbolizes the hard work that I put in, the dedication I had for the game, the love I had for the game.
~ Ben Wallace
You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.
~ Billy Crystal
Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season.
~ Phil Neville
I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
~ Sara Blakely
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
También veremos si los jueces, retóricas e invocaciones aparte, son capaces de resistir. En ellos, en su talante, descansa mucho de lo que en el futuro veremos desarrollarse. Como alguna vez dijo para sí y su integración jurisdiccional un ministro ahora en retiro, ya veremos de qué están hechos nuestros jueces. Bíblicamente hablando, por sus frutos los conoceremos.
~ Francisco Martín Moreno
A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
~ Franco Modigliani
You will not distract me from my current purpose, adversary. Though you have fought admirably, I will defeat you, then compose poetry for your funeral." "This…um…isn't to the death, Hesho." "I will defeat you," he said in the same exact tone, "and compose poetry for your retirement party.
~ Brandon Sanderson
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. This explains the great fear with which many people face their retirement. After all, who are we when we no longer have an occupation?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Politicians who are not contemplating early retirement usually find survival more attractive than martyrdom.
~ Herman E. Talmadge
Painting was always something I thought I'd do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
~ Anh Do
I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
~ Cathy Freeman
Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
~ Julia Roberts
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
~ Chris Christie
Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
~ Barack Obama
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
~ Sebastian Coe
When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
~ Sheryl Crow