Leonard Slatkin Quotes

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

I always wondered if I would know the right time to retire. After that first Ashes Test in Brisbane in 2006 I had no intention of stopping. I was still focused and wanted a thousand international wickets. I was still driven.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

When I retire, I want to retire the right way.

Whether I retire tomorrow or in 20 years, I just want to get as much out as I can. But with that, I have an understanding that basketball's not forever.

Like people say, it's very hard for a good professional to retire.

When people retire, they should stay retired.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.