#retire

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. ↗

— Albert Camus

#idleness #retirement #time #death

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. ↗

— Junior Seau

#around #assigned #bull #enjoy #full-time

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#retire #success #women #working #men

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#retire #simply #something

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#because #contender #could #football #good

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ↗

— George Burns

#had #i #pimples #retirement #ridiculous

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#carlo #football #game #i #liked

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#any #certain #desire #hard #i

To retire is to begin to die. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#die #retire