Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I think I may not be able to retire.

I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'