Issey Miyake Quotes

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

I will never retire.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

To retire is to die.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

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

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

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.

I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.'

Why haven't I retired? I love this game too much.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.