David Mixner Quotes

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

I've got an old body.

Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can't recover when you're old.

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

You can sing at 65, and you can act at 65, but you can't kick your legs at 65.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

I don't jog anymore 'cuz my knees hurt and stuff like that. I walk a lot and I am really slowing down walking.

As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

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.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.