A Quote by Billy Joel

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
American - Musician
Born: May 9, 1949

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

Victor Borge

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Milton Berle

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

Marat Safin

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

Betty White

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

Betty White

I don't know where that thought came from and I don't know why I had that thought, but I thought I was the best fighter on the whole planet.

B. J. Penn

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

Andy Serkis

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

Maria Sharapova

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

Johnny Miller

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Graeme Le Saux

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Tanya Tucker

I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.

Connie Kalitta

I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'

Jesmyn Ward

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.