247 quotes
I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
Mary Crosby
Actress · American · b. 1959
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
Musician · American · b. 1936
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
Tanya Tucker
Musician · American · b. 1958
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
Jackie Stewart
Athlete · Scottish · b. 1939
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
Maria Callas
Musician · American · 1923 – 1977
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
Vinnie Vincent
Musician · American · b. 1952
I've enjoyed my retirement.
Darrell Royal
Coach · American
When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!
Paul Ince
Athlete · English · b. 1967
I'm a performer. We don't retire.
Robert Goulet
Musician · American · 1933 – 2007
I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.
Jean Alesi
Celebrity · French · b. 1964
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
Coach · American · 1922 – 2002
To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
Musician · Spanish · 1876 – 1973
I'm never going to retire.
Rene Auberjonois
Actor · American · b. 1940
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight
Coach · American · b. 1940
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
Ted Knight
Actor · American · 1923 – 1986
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.
Guy Forget
Athlete · French · b. 1965
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
Athlete · American · b. 1971
To retire is to die.
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
Julio Iglesias
Musician · American · b. 1943
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek
Athlete · Dutch · b. 1971
I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.
Tone Loc
Musician · American · b. 1966
I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
Robbie Fowler
Athlete · English · b. 1975
I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.
Ron Rice
Athlete · American · b. 1972
I quit driving, I'm not retired.
Richard Petty
Athlete · American · b. 1937
The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
Doug Flutie
Athlete · American · b. 1962
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
Bobby Bowden
Coach · American · b. 1929
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
Actor · American · b. 1931
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
Forest Whitaker
Actor · American · b. 1961
I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
Owen Hart
Entertainer · Canadian · 1965 – 1999
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
Journalist · American · b. 1842
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher · Spanish · 1601 – 1658
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
Poet · Roman
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
Ron Chernow
Author · American
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
Jack Kilby
Scientist · American · 1923 – 2005
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
Author · American · 1872 – 1939
For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
Steve Israel
Politician · American · b. 1958
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
Writer · American · b. 1937
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
Businessman · American · 1870 – 1965
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren
Writer · American
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
Poet · Irish · 1779 – 1852
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
Writer · American · b. 1933
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Helen Garner
Novelist · Australian · b. 1942
Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
Poet · American
We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
Judy Biggert
Politician · American · b. 1937
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
Ron Lewis
Politician · American · b. 1946
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.