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Quotes About Retirement

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.
~ Tony La Russa
As I expected, my retirement sent shock waves through the system. But not in the way I intended. In the three months after I retired, seventy other geiko also quit the business. I appreciated the gesture, though it seemed a little late to be showing solidarity with me at that point. And the powers that be didn't change a thing.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Because of outdated ideas around retirement, we have put the money cart ahead of the "life" horse.
~ Mitch Anthony
If retirement requires a certain degree of peace of mind and an easy conscience, Victor Florian did not appear to have much of either. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow that most people have on their head.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.
~ Vlade Divac
My dad was in the Army, and we moved, I think, eight times before I was in the seventh grade. We landed in Tallahassee when my dad retired from the Army and started working for the state.
~ Tony Hale
I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.
~ Sean Connery
I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.
~ Andy Roddick
A lot of sportsmen get depression, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people retire and you don't hear from them, but I don't want to do that.
~ James Haskell
When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.
~ Jason Day
Even after I retired I'd get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it's another message and I'll just ignore it, but these things shouldn't be acceptable. They aren't acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.
~ Ryan Mason
We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?
~ Jamie Carragher
I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
~ Romesh Wadhwani
You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
If you are a banker... you can do that for all your life, but if you are a footballer once you hit your mid 30s, you have to find something else to do.
~ Stephan Lichtsteiner
After all the good years in the kit, I hope to close my career with Milan.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
I have to say that clubs like Piacenza, Atalanta, and Parma always call me, they make me feel important. Probably they also appreciated me as a man, not just as a player. But after everything I've experienced with the Rossoneri's shirt, I think it's right that I end my career at Milan.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
I feel happy here and want to stay in Milan for ten seasons and then retire at the age of 36.
~ Robinho
Even though I retired, I work out four to five days a week, run two to three miles, I play ball.
~ Charles Oakley
The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.
~ Alan K. Simpson
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
~ Donald E. Westlake
My grandad used to work in the mines, he's retired now, but he's been a big part of my career.
~ Millie Bright
This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio, so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute.
~ Charlotte Dujardin
Mrs. Rule wants to be free of financial worry before her sixty-fifth birthday. Each time she tabulates, she tells herself she is reducing her fear of never being able to retire in comfort.
~ Thomas J. Stanley