Ashley Young Quotes

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

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.

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

As a player, you get to the stage where you realise that you are not 25 anymore - and can't play the way you used to. The intelligent players adapt - and Steven Gerrard has the ability to do that. He is an excellent passer of the ball, possesses an intelligent football brain, and has great vision.

I'm a versatile player, can play in numerous positions, and I have a good football brain, even if it is getting older.

I had a good football intelligence. I didn't need 10 games to get used to a position. I could go out and do a job.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

Some people like Messi didn't have to learn a lot as his is a natural style. But of course you can improve your technique, your football intelligence, your everything.

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

Your mind grows through use.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.