Jason Witten Quotes

I want to play until I'm 38.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?

The catching position is hard. You have to find a way to do a lot of things, to be in the game. When you get older, when you're 38 years old, you have to find a way to be on the field.

If you look after yourself and are willing to adapt - there is no reason why you can't play at the top level until your late 30s.

There's some glory years, where if you play long enough and you've figured the game out, and physically you're still healthy enough, there are some years in there where you can really be productive. And those are fun years.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.