
Ainge scrunches his face as he ponders a future he rarely tries to picture. “No, I don’t really look forward to being retired,” he says. “I don’t think I will leave this job ever and, like, retire. At least not in the near future. I don’t see doing that, no. I need to be doing something. I’m too hyper. My wife and I have had 40 years of a great marriage. I think that if I was home too much, it might not last much longer. I think she needs me out of the house at least six or eight hours a day.”