Top 100 I'm Retired Quotes
#1. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.
Drew Carey
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx
#9. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci
#10. As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
Uzo Aduba
#11. 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
#12. I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
Frank Lowy
#13. 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
#14. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
#15. 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
#16. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.
Dan Fouts
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Eric Cantona
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. When I retired from the NFL, no one knew who I was, and I had to start all over. I ended up doing security in L.A., and I was just on movie sets and watching.
Terry Crews
#41. I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
Mark McGwire
#42. This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.
Suzanne Somers
#43. From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
Jackie Stewart
#44. I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
Dick Van Dyke
#45. When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan
#47. One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
James Earl Jones
#48. I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.
Lionel Messi
#49. I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.
Howie Carr
#50. Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs
Hanshan
#52. 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
#53. 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.
Munir Butt
#54. I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
Jack Kilby
#55. By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone
Tim Samaras
#56. 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
#57. I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.
Victoria Pendleton
#58. I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.
Ozzy Osbourne
#59. I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.
Cilla Black
#60. I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
Peter O'Toole
#61. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
Lisa Caputo
#63. I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.
Evangeline Lilly
#64. I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.
Greg LeMond
#65. 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
#66. You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!
Norman Wisdom
#67. My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.
E. Howard Hunt
#68. 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.
Jack Nicholson
#69. When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.
Drew Bledsoe
#70. Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.
Sean Covey
#71. I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Mike Leigh
#72. I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.
Michael Jordan
#73. It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
Ozzy Osbourne
#74. My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
Michael Strahan
#75. He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.
Bobby Bowden
#76. 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
#78. I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
David Walliams
#79. Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.
Shirley Temple
#80. I remember what Ron Greschner said when he retired. 'The thing I'm going to miss most is showering with 23 guys.' And that's what it's all about: camaraderie.
Mike Richter
#81. 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
#82. It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#83. I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!
Wladimir Klitschko
#84. At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.
Myla Goldberg
#85. I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.
Yuen Woo-ping
#86. I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
Kevin Mitnick
#89. I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!
Mia Sara
#90. I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.
Ron Brackin
#91. I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
Rickey Henderson
#92. 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
#93. Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.
Stephen Baker
#94. 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
#95. 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.
Lionel Messi
#96. 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Carl Lewis
#97. 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.
Kiri Te Kanawa
#98. It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
Michael East
#99. I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired,'
Bill Murray
#100. There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.
Sheryl Swoopes
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