Rod Stewart Quotes

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.

While I'm hale and hearty, I've no thought in my mind to retire.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

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.

I will never retire unless I have to.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

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

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

I'm not retiring.

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

A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.

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

Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

I'm not retiring, because when you retire, you're still getting paid. I'm not getting paid, so I'm not retiring.

People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.

I want to retire as champion, and I will make that happen.

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

If my mind and body are still active, why should I retire?

When I am retired I will know how good I was.

I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.