Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness. ”

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out. ”

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own. ”

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ”

I don't feel disabled, and I think everybody makes their own way in life. ”

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it. ”

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had. ”

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ”

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared. ”

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both. ”