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'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Carl Lewis
Life
Love
Time
Best
Day
Happy
Mind
My Life
Long
Possibly
Could
Had
Clear
Retired
Days
Sport
Because
Go
Get
Done
Fortunate
Away
I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
Carlton Fisk
Time
You
Remember
Walls
Think
Jimmy
Those
Sign
Guys
Only
Never
Retired
Looked
Because
Always
Were
Years
Up
Did
Fund
Ever
Million
Things
Million Years
Numbers
As the wife of a retired Navy commander and the representative of the district covering Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, I see firsthand the permanent effects of war - both physical and psychological - on those who serve our country.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
War
Air Force
Wife
Country
Our
Air
Those
District
Physical
See
Both
Retired
Force
Permanent
Firsthand
Commander
Covering
Effects
Representative
Psychological
Who
Navy
Washington
Base
Serve
Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?
Charles Dance
You
People
Old
Would
Would-Be
Darling
Retire
Retired
Nobody
Left
Going
Keep
Keep Going
Actor
Play
I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs - actually not doing anything very constructive. I made one little solo album in my garage.
Christine McVie
Made
Country
Being Busy
Nothing
Busy
Virtually
Solo
Constructive
Retired
Dogs
Doing
Been
Years
Very
Walking
Being
Lady
Anything
Little
Garage
Actually
Album
That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.
Chuck Liddell
People
Three
Fighting
Way
Out
Would
Bore
Retired
Liked
Safe
Stick
Around
Shield
Want
Fights
Reasons
Whole
Fought
Four
Start
Last
Playing
Career
I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.
Chuck Liddell
Change
Style
Whatever
Think
Punch
Would
Stay
Take
Retired
Like
Sort
Heard
Same
Want
Happen
Used
Theories
Reason
Reasons
Why
In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.
Chuck Norris
World
Top
Retired
Undefeated
Until
Won
Title
Then
Held
Karate
Fighters
Fought
Defeating
Championship
There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.
Clint Eastwood
Me
Age
Police
Out
Retired
Police Officers
Limits
Officers
Certain
Certain Age
I retired at 35 in '98 and thought, 'There's only one place to go, and that's downward.' I retired at a good level. I was at peace after 15 years - I was lucky to play that long.
Clyde Drexler
Good
Peace
Thought
Long
Only
Retired
Go
Years
After
Place
Lucky
Play
Downward
Level
My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
Courtney B. Vance
Education
Mother
Made
Parents
Librarian
About
Retired
She
Sure
Always
Were
Years
After
Plays
Museums
My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.
Craig Robinson
Teacher
Music
Me
School
Mother
Whatever
High
Would
High School
Take
Put
Retired
Perform
She
Go
Just
Taught
Us
Groups
Museum
When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
Darren Flutie
Home
Family
Think
Stay
Had
Retired
Over
Days
Were
Necessarily
Playing
My father is a retired FBI agent. I have guns in my house. I'm not against the Second Amendment.
David Hogg
Father
Guns
Retired
House
Amendment
Against
Agent
Second
Second Amendment
I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
David Souter
Life
Time
Try
Decision
Whatever
Rose
Living
Summer
Later
About
More
No Regrets
Remain
Weeks
Retired
Drove
Couple
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Prior
Years
Normal
Normal Life
North
Might
Regrets
Washington
Recess
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
David Walliams
Gentleman
Retired
Like
Know
Traits
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
Debbie Reynolds
Father
Astaire
Pleasure
Fred
Fred Astaire
He
Part
Retired
Him
Were
His
Get
Worked
Company
Lucky
Play
In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.
Dennis L. McKiernan
Better
Become
Engineering
Enjoy
Bit
Rather
Writer
Retired
Liked
Just
Being
Full-Time
Novelist
Bell
Career
After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.
Dianne Wiest
War
Me
Army
World
Mother
Old
Father
Fly
Air
Months
Flying
Airlines
Bernard
City
Born
He
Retired
Anne
Forces
Left
Commercial
After
Kansas
Kansas City
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
Dick Van Dyke
Habit
Retired
Times
Getting
Many
Now
I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?
Donald Sterling
Corporations
Could
Retired
Major
Operate
How
Five
Them
I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.
Ernie Banks
People
Old
Feeling
Meet
Retired
Like
Talk
Lot
Up
Times
Get
Just
Want
Grew
Them
Career
I'm retired from the daredevil business.
Felix Baumgartner
Business
Daredevil
Retired
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis
Best
You
Money
Wealth
Earning
Unless
Retired
Form
Preservation
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
Frank Deford
Game
Independence
Bad Things
Think
Ought
Rule
Say
Penalties
Bad
Would
Athletes
Determining
Joint
Retain
Retired
League
Major
Leagues
Major Leagues
Sport
Judges
Within
Doing
Up
Get
Commission
Accused
Committed
Then
Should
Who
Each
Away
Things
Four
Players
Set
We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning's path when he retired. But hey, that's natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.
Frank Deford
Sports
Natural
Water
Path
Achieve
Rose
Strewn
Hey
Those
Out
Admire
Exalted
Feats
Remarkable
He
Retired
Were
Michael
Craft
Any
Should
Less
Who
Petals
Appear
Nowhere
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