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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.

Pablo Casals

Musician · Spanish · 1876 – 1973

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.

Ron Chernow

Author · American

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.

Ron Chernow

Author · American

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.

Ron Lewis

Politician · American · b. 1946

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