Retiring Quotes - Page 18

• Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Fishing, Play

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• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

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• Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Giving

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• Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Boredom

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• I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

  David Beckham

  Sports, Running, Past

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• If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep.

  Rachel Ryan

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Men, Rooms

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• Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

  Nicklas Lidstrom

  Pride, Games, Today

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• I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Fighting, Boxing, Giving

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• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Learning, People

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• I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

  Fidel Castro

  Believe, Young, Ought

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• I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspiring, Sunset, Race

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• Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

  George Washington

  Farewell, August, Order

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.9

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• I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Sitting Down

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• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

  Horace

  Life, Inspire, Age

  "Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Fisherman, Golfers

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• When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

  William Wilberforce

  Fashion, Blessed, Vanity

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• All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

  Susan Jeffers

  Children, Growing Up, Live Life

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Being Strong, Exercise, Lazy

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Mistake, Athlete

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• It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Southern, Brain

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Would Be, Prime, Ministers

  "Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative" by Amy Clark, www.cbsnews.com. July 22, 2006.

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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Modesty, Fidelity

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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• As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

  Aminu Kano

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

  Herman Edwards

  Sports, Winning, Play

  "PRO FOOTBALL; Edwards's Take on Jets: Quitting Is Never an Option". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2012.

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