Paul McCartney 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.

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

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

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

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

I don't believe in retirement.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

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 just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

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 like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

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

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Old guys can still do fun things.

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

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

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

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Retire? Never! We are far too busy!