Deborah Bull Quotes

As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good footballing brain, your legs start slowing down!

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be like, 'Man, Kamasi, I've got this new thing! Nobody ever heard anything like this before!' It's amazing hanging out with somebody that was born in 1918.

I feel bad singing music that my children won't like. But I like listening to that music myself! It's a problem.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

Even when I'm 70, I'm still gonna write rhymes.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.