Retired Quotes

Why wait until next year? Honestly, some guys get into the playoffs early in their career, and before they know it, they're retired and they've never made it back. I want it now. - Rickie Weeks

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others. - Fred Rogers

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted? - Alyn McCauley

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. - Charles De Saint-Evremond

When you look at the whole region, we make it really attractive to retired people. We call ourselves planners and town managers, but that doesn't mean we know how to make these things work right. - Charles Watson

When you look at programs like Nebraska, Oklahoma and Florida State and Ohio State and others and you see the retired numbers there, we felt like this was a logical progression that we needed to really consider. We have a great football heritage, and maybe we need to start recognizing that more so. - Mike Hamilton

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

When we retired to the living room and he picked up his guitar ... My 14-month-old son would just gravitate toward his pops. He'd start playing that Stevie Ray Vaughn song, Pride and Joy , and Michael Ray would crawl over and try to help his pops play. - Michael DeViney

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired. - Larry Martin