Lionel Messi

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Argentinian Footballer

Michael Schumacher

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

German Celebrity

Michael Jordan

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

American Basketball Player

Horace

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Roman Poet

Dr. Dre

I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.

American Musician

Benjamin Disraeli

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

British Statesman

Gina Raimondo

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

American Politician

Royce Gracie

I made peace with retirement, but when you're a fighter, you're always a fighter.

Brazilian Athlete

Jim Crace

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

English Writer

Bradley Wiggins

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

British Athlete

Used to signify ending a professional career, commonly due to age.

Career Conclusion

'Retire' doesn't mean you can't work again. Some come out of retirement.

Not Permanent

People often plan when they'll retire, considering personal and financial factors.

Planned Future

Retire' can refer to the habitual time you go to bed each night.

Daily Routine

Using 'retire' for sleep is more formal and less common in casual talk.

Formal Expression

It means moving to a place where one can be peaceful or undisturbed.

Seek Quiet

This use implies a temporary departure from a group for privacy or concentration.

Temporary Seclusion

It describes the end of an item's operational life, often replaced by something newer.

End of Service

Although often used in a technical context, it also applies to non-tech items.

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 So many of the commercials that come out there in the way of a message -- what's really being said? "Your life would be better if you could work a little less, didn't have to work so hard, got home a little earlier, could retire a little faster, punch out a little sooner." It's all in there, over and over, again and again. Washington?

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 It's also lifelong. It never ends. The people in our 75-year study who were the happiest in retirement were the people who had actively worked to replace workmates with new playmates. Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults

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 middle-class life with a comfortable retirement package and enough to pay college tuition for my seven-year-old twins I was expected to become what I saw and not aim higher however I had a different vision for myself one bigger and that would require the disruption of

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 that certain long-term obligations -- health care, where innovation makes it more expensive, early retirement and pension, where the age structure gets worse for you, and just generosity -- that these mis-accounting things allow to develop over time,

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 discipline that has the passion and has the talent you know to do what they do every day incrementally better until the day they die a master doesn't retire the master doesn't stop they do it until their debt it's a part of them it's who you are

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 he's not the first consort to the queen and he probably won't be the last driver and queens are for ants unusually promiscuous he'll be one of many suitors she'll entertain during her lifetime his job done he retires from the royal

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 , I retired. I wanted to do different things from my life and wildlife has always been a passion. Jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas, is the 3rd largest cat in the world.

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 The glory of the Empire can go to the crows. All he craves is to retire on a small farm with his wife-to-be, if the gods should spare his life for 17 more years.

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 He'll be one of many suitors she'll entertain during her lifetime. His job done, he retires from the royal chamber and dies. A short but productive life,

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 And I thought it might be helpful to basically cut off five of those retirement years and intersperse them in between those working years.