Pele Quotes

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

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

I will travel a lot after my career.

I always try to have a vacation.

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.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

I like retirement.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

People retire to do what I do every day.

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.