Retired Quotes - Page 15

• I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

  Martin Shaw

  Sports, Law, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

  George Burns

  Retirement, Years, People

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• I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

  Fauja Singh

  Body, Able, Feels

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Rewards

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• I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

  Tommy Chong

  Retirement, Mean, School

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• We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Hate, Flower

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.58, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

  Jen Kirkman

  Retirement, Golf, College

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• I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Daughter, Dad, Age

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• I wasn't blessed with this unique talent for nothing. I have to put it on display. The game hasn't retired me. When I went through all of my struggles, I became a champion right then. Now I just have to walk through my destiny.

  Antonio Tarver

  Struggle, Blessed, Unique

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• As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

  Lorin Maazel

  People, Age, Trying

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

  Rameez Raja

  Kings, Entertainment, Ends

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Winter, Sharks

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• There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

  Jamie Farr

  Morning, Children, Phoenix

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• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  Henry Rollins

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

  Shirley Temple

  Children, Drs, Former

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• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Acting, Hiring, Indie Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

  George Burns

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

  Drew Carey

  Retirement, Guy, House

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• I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Fighting, Film, Choreography

  Source: collider.com

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

  Steve Kerr

  Coaching, Ownership, Broadcasting

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. March 13, 2007.

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

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Character, Careers

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• It has really filled a big space, especially since I have been so-called retired - although I haven't noticed my schedule slacking at all.

  Darrell Royal

  Space, Schedules, Slacking

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• One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear.

  Carly Fiorina

  Home, Warrior, Class

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Nice, Winning

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