I Am Retired Quotes

#1. As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

Oscar De La Hoya

#2. I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

Charles Lamb

#3. I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#4. A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

Rajneesh

#5. I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Maurice Strong

#6. If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

#7. I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

Lionel Messi

#8. With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like ' ... retired.'

Tyra Banks

#9. 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.

Morgan Freeman

#10. From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

Alex Berenson

#11. He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means.

Ovid

#12. No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

Kate Walsh

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

C.S. Lewis

#14. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina

#15. Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

Liu Xiang

#16. As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.

Eric Holder

#17. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. 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.

Rae Spoon

#19. I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Jeff Garlin

#20. If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

James O'Shaughnessy

#21. relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. 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.

Henry Rollins

#23. Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.

Rae Armantrout

#24. I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

David Cone

#25. 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.

George Burns

#26. Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

Bobby Bowden

#27. I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

JR

#28. I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Robert MacNeil

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

Artie Lange

#30. I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

Jennie Finch

#31. I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired.

Terry Gou

#32. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#33. I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.

Patrick Ewing

#34. I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.

Susan Ford

#35. If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

Andy Roddick

#36. I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Red Adair

#37. I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players.

Derek Fisher

#38. Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful?

Cesar Pelli

#39. I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

Brother Lawrence

#40. I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

Ted Danson

#41. I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar N. Bradley

#42. From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

Jackie Stewart

#43. Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?

Conan O'Brien

#44. 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?

Kerry Washington

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

Jacky Ickx

#46. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Richard Armour

#47. Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.

Fabrice Muamba

#48. I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

Frank Lowy

#49. Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H.L. Mencken

#50. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Tommy Chong

#51. As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

Uzo Aduba

#52. Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.

Charles Dickens

#53. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#54. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

#55. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

Pat Toomay

#56. Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Laurie R. King

#57. My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

Robin Williams

#58. Many of these omnibuses were driven, oddly enough, by male models who had retired from the business, which meant that Parisians of Manet's day were transported around the city by men who had once posed as valiant biblical heroes or the vindictive deities of classical mythology.

Ross King

#59. The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin.

Brandon Flowers

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

Kristy McNichol

#61. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

Oswald Chambers

#62. In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on CNN discussing Afghanistan and troop surges as though they knew what the hell war was all about.

Pete Barber

#63. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Drew Carey

#64. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

Jack Nicklaus

#65. 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.

George Washington

#66. Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

Rob Sheffield

#67. I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Eric Dickerson

#68. I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'

Ryan Coogler

#69. 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.

Andy Roddick

#70. My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Sunil Mittal

#71. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

#72. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#73. Until the day that "the Great Judge proclaims: / 'The last addict's died,'254 " the poem said, "Then - not till then - may you be retired.

Johann Hari

#74. I don't like being retired. It's like announcing an end to your worth, whatever that worth was, and the longer you go on, the more you realize that that worth wasn't worth anything like you once thought it was, and that just makes it worse.

Steven Erikson

#75. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Josh Kaufman

#76. I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

Eric Cantona

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

Stephanie Coontz

#78. After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Tom T. Hall

#79. Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.

Oswald Chambers

#80. After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Peter Higgs

#81. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

Dan Fouts

#82. The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens.

Adam Christopher