Retired Quotes

• I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Golf
  • Imagine
  • Fats

• The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.

  

  Walter Kiechel
  • Important
  • Teaching
  • Academic

• I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me, so I retired. I will never box again because I went 2 years and no one would fight me at all, zero. That's when I started training fighters.

  

  Ann Wolfe
  • Fighting
  • Sleep
  • Training

• I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Team
  • Running
  • Senior

• If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

  

  Sydney Biddle Barrows
  • War
  • General
  • Expert

• 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
  • Home
  • Chairs
  • Cemetery

• There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Term
  • Retired
  • Cop

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