Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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

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.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

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

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

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.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

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!

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

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.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

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

Dancing improved my fitness level and endurance.

With enough lunges and squats, your butt will stay firm till you're 80.

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.