Retired Quotes · Page 5

When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!

— Rameez Raja

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

— Armand Hammer

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

— Andy Kindler

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

— Milton Jones

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

— Jeff Garlin

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.

— Michael Caine

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

I have moved on now from athletics, but it was difficult initially after I retired.

— Denise Lewis

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in…

— Eric Dickerson

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets…

— Alex Berenson

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and…

— John Mackey

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of…

— Wladimir Klitschko

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire…

— Rick Astley

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit…

— Omar N. Bradley

What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've…

— Indira Gandhi

I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release]…

— Richard Branson

I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I…

— I. M. Pei

We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us…

— Darold Treffert

I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had…

— Emmanuel Petit

When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent…

— Richard Ojeda

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of…

— Stephen Leacock

When I used to be the captain of India, many people literally hated me for being overly expressive. Once I retired, the…

— Sourav Ganguly

I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired.…

— Walter Huston

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis…

— Richard Davies

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

— Amy Goodman

I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.

— Steve Kerr

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

— Angus King

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

— Rickey Henderson

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully…

— Jonathan Clements

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Michael Caine

I retired one year in 1959. But then I realized I wanted to play more.

— George Blanda

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to…

— Eddy Alvarez

My dad is a retired headmaster and my mum is an ex-teacher. I was taught by both of them.

— Richard Herring

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

— Gene Perret

To have a Beatle doing an impression of you, I almost retired at that moment.

— Ron Mael

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

— Cleve Jones

When St-Pierre retired, it brought a lot of enthusiasm to the weight class, and things got shook up.

— Robbie Lawler