Forced Retirement Quotes

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

You want to do it on your own terms - not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'what am I getting up for now?'

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

You’ve got two people working for you – Warrick and (Meghan) O’Sullivan – that you need to get rid of.

If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.