Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. ”

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. ”

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? ”

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life. ”

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either. ”

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government. ”

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it. ”

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?' ”

It's a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift. ”

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore. ”