Hale Irwin Quotes

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

When I turned 30, the first question I got was, 'How much longer do you want to play?' And I don't see why that can't be when you turn 40. I really don't.

Chinese people age overnight.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

I plan on working until I'm 105.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

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

When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.