Tommy Morrison Quotes

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

You get old, you slow down.

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.

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

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

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

All diseases run into one, old age.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

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.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.