Retirement Ceremony Quotes

I will not go to Oklahoma and retire my jersey there.

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

For me, getting your number retired is the greatest accomplishment. There is no accolade with more significance that you can receive from an organization or school. Whether it was my four years at Central Arkansas or all my seasons with the Bulls in Chicago, it's a sign of respect for what I have done.

I remember the night in December 2005 when the Bulls retired my number and will never, ever forget it.

If I'm the Cavs, I seriously do this: I do a wink-wink deal with LeBron James, give him part ownership of the team. I put a statue in front of the building, and I retire his number. I do all of that.

Sitting front row with my little brother, my older brother, and my dad's wife at the time - seeing 80,000 people at the Citrus Bowl emotionally pouring their hearts out watching my dad retire - I didn't even grasp what he meant to the industry. I didn't even fully grasp it until I started wrestling myself.

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio, so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute.

It's extremely uncommon in sports to retire and have a show about you within eight months of retiring.

My dad and some of them felt I should be playing on home soil and retire in front of the home crowd.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

I would like to ask, Should not a player who has played 12 to 13 years for his country deserves a farewell match?

Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'