I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one…

You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy…

— Persis Khambatta

“I retired at the age of 25, and it wasn’t until a few days later that I realized that in order to retire you…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Julius Erving

“And anyway by the time you are retired at the age of sixty there is nothing to do. Death seems to be a relief,…

— Osho

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really…

— Mary Badham

As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A…

— Lorin Maazel

“This is it,” said Dad. “Grace Brewster Murray Hopper Hall.” They wound their way upstairs and down long hallways to a door that said…

— Megan McDonald

“Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If…

— Derek Landy

“I wonder what Mom would say if she were here,” I said. Dad pulled back, his eyes wet with happy tears. “She’d say you…

— Jamie McGuire

I remember my dad saying to me, 'But Fiona don't you want to go and do the dramatic society. You can still do your…

— Fiona Bruce

“I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did. "I…

— Stephen Chbosky

I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor,…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

— Archie Manning

This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'

— Jimmy Fallon

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got…

— Wilt Chamberlain