Top 100 Quotes About Retired
#1. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.
Drew Carey
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx
#12. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
Uzo Aduba
#16. 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
#17. Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
H.L. Mencken
#18. I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
Frank Lowy
#19. 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
#20. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.
Dan Fouts
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39
Stephanie Coontz
#29. I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Eric Cantona
#30. 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
#31. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
Jack Nicklaus
#32. 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
#33. 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Christine Pelosi
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.
Rae Armantrout
#47. 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
#48. relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
Fulton J. Sheen
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means.
Ovid
#55. 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
#56. Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.
C.S. Lewis
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Foreword by Major-General (Retired) Richard Rohmer Preface to the Fourth Paperback Edition Preface to the Third Paperback Edition Preface to the Second Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition
Palmiro Campagna
#65. 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
#66. 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.
John Grisham
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
Jackie Stewart
#70. I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
Dick Van Dyke
#71. 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
#72. Some of today's men and women give the impression that they have grown lazy, weary and out of love. Physically, they might entice you with their youthful looks, However, on the inside, they possess a dying spirit; a spirit which has retired from active love life engagements'.
Francis Otieno
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there's Food Network, HGTV and 'Golden Girls' reruns. And 'Roseanne.'
Ross Mathews
#78. We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula
#79. 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
#80. Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
Tamsin Greig
#81. I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.
Tone-Loc
#82. I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.
Alan Jackson
#83. I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)
Steve Wozniak
#86. As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
Samuel Beckett
#87. So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
Terry Gross
#88. 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
#89. The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.
Thomas Holcomb
#90. 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
#91. It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
Clive James
#92. 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
#93. Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.
James Snyder
#94. I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.
Anita Brookner
#95. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.
Hugh Laurie
#96. When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
Stephen Richards
#97. I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.
Michael Caine
#98. I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
Jack Kilby
#99. 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
#100. I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.
Nick Hornby
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