Jerry Stiller Quotes

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

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

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

You can't do sports for the rest of your life; I don't care how good you are. You can be the best ever, but it's still going to go away.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

I don't have an expiry date. My body is my answer - when I see that I can no longer compete, when my head is not in it anymore, it will be the time to stop.

I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

Whether I'd stopped playing professionally at 17 - or if I stop at 35 - tennis will always be a part of my life.

I'm not a mad genius or anything, but I'm just constantly driven to make things up, but I wonder who I'm doing all this for?

I don't care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It's just about my legacy.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

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.