Retired Quotes

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

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

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

I'm not semi-retired, I'm just taking it easy.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

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!

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.