Ian Beattie Quotes

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.

I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age of 87.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

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.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.