Top 721 Retired Quotes & Sayings

When I have a family, I will be retired.

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.

Mentally I was retired, and physically I was retired. I was playing recreational ball. But when the decision happened with Chris Bosh and LeBron, I felt like I could really be good in that system.

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired. If I am not retired, then that means I should still be working hard, keeping the company running.

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.

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

I think I should stay retired.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

I retired once a couple of times.

I retired from everything except work.

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

I never retired.

My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

Injuries weren't the reason why I retired. I retired on my own terms.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.

I'm a retired MC.

A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.

My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.

I am retired, I don't fight anymore, I lost the desire.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

When Zinédine Zidane retired, he said he'd never be a manager and it wasn't in his plans. But after two years out, he missed football a lot. I think he retired a little bit early, he could have gone on for at least another season, and it would have been a pleasure for us to have him.

I've retired my sneakers for stilettos, baby!

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.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

My parents are retired, basically.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

When people retire, they should stay retired.

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

I shouldn't have retired from England. I needed to respect the shirt.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.

Retired life's good, man.

I never retired from any of my teams; I was fired.

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

I'm a retired media executive.

I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.

You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

I retired at 35 in '98 and thought, 'There's only one place to go, and that's downward.' I retired at a good level. I was at peace after 15 years - I was lucky to play that long.

My dad had already retired by the time I was born.

After I retired, I spent a quarter of a century in the business, and when I retired and a new regime took over, Vince McMahon Jr. and that, and in the beginning I went back to help out. I color commentated with him, but then I started to see things that were disturbing to me.

I'm not semi-retired, I'm just taking it easy.