Ronaldo Quotes

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

As you get older, you do just get tired.

When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'

Dialysis is horrible and left me so tired. I couldn't do it any more, it takes so much out of you. By the end I was tired of being tired. I could sleep 11, 12 or 13 hours a day and still be absolutely knackered.

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

I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

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

I just turned 27 years old, and there are mornings where my knees and ankles really hurt. I hurt all over. I would hate to be me when I'm 35 years old. I'll be a basket case, but I will have a lot of memories.

It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

We are all older and more tired.

Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?