Retirement Quotes for Messages & Sharing – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Joseph Jarman

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

Nolan Ryan

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Martin Yan

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

Pete Sampras

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

Brian Clough

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

Max von Sydow

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

Willie Stargell

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Shirley Bassey

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Michael Caine

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

Nadia Comaneci

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

Gloria Swanson

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Herbie Mann

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Scott Bakula

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Paul Hogan

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Jerry Doyle

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

Sheryl Crow

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

Sally Rand

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

David Beckham

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

Drew Carey

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

Brenda Blethyn

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

Christopher Meloni

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

Richard Krajicek

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

Desmond Llewelyn

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

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

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

Julie London

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

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

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Anjelica Huston

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Johnny Ramone

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

Jacob Hacker

I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

Jana Novotna

I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

Carlton Fisk

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Barbara Mandrell

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

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Richard Gough