Michael Douglas Quotes

I'm retiring because my time is up.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

I think that at the close of next November, I ought to hang up the boxing gloves.

I have decided to resign totally and finally all official positions. I shall return to private life.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

It's now become a joke in my family that as soon as I finish a job, I'm on a loop saying, 'I'm never going to work again' - it drives everyone mad!

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

The time you are happy to sit on the bench, is the time you should retire in my opinion.