Marian McPartland Quotes

I hardly do any exercise because of my arthritis and my joints.

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

When my knee feels good, I'm always going to feel I can do more.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

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.

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.

I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

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

The wife and the kids provide my exercise, but I have to be careful because I have rheumatoid arthritis all over my body.

Just getting from the airport straight to the gym is gonna be your best bet to knock off that rust and wake yourself up and get that blood flowing. You sit in a car or a plane cramped up, you lose a lot of blood flow and get that swelling in your legs. There are all kinds of dangers in sitting still too long.

Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally different. It's painful as hell is all I can say.

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

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

I'm a big believer that as you age, you need to stretch more.

I am not one of those girls who can just land in a split. I need to warm up to be flexible.

I have osteoarthritis so bad... I can walk up a hill; I just can't walk down one.

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain. That's more important to me than being thin.

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.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!