#retired

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. ↗

— Richard Armour

#first #i #retired #then #thought

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. ↗

— Red Adair

#always #cemetery #chair #friends #going

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#before #born #feel #i #i can

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#i #kids #listen #now #positive

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#back #chair #day #enough #ethic

My parents are retired, basically. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#parents #retired

People do not retire. They are retired by others. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#people #retire #retired

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better. ↗

— Julius Erving

#better #could #felt #i #like

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

— Bjorn Borg

#life #my life #other #retired #tennis