Retiring Quotes

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

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.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

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.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

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

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

I'm not retiring.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

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