Life After Retirement Quotes

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

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.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

I don't know if I want to be 65 or 67, still broadcasting games. But, why not? What else are you going to do?

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

I do not know if I will stay in the game when I do retire; I have got humanity, so I do not know if I will go into law.

Since retirement, I have been given the opportunity to spend time with my family. I have three children, aged 16, 14 and one. That is what is really important to me. I have also done a little commentating in Australia and am part of the MRF academy in Chennai.

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.