Jim Boeheim Quotes

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over forty who need work are finding themselves. …. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should exist for at forty a man or woman should be at their best and have experience and poise and patience all of which should make meeting certain problems of work easier.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you are good enough, age shouldn't come into it.

We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don't look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.

You can't put an age on power.

It doesn't matter if you are 30 or 40 or 19 or 17 - if you can play the ball, you can play the ball.

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'

I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

I know people that make similar content to me who are 30 or 40 years old. So I don't think there is an age limit to it at all.

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

I do have a lot to learn, and I think that has a big factor in everything. Being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.