Antonio Banderas Quotes

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

When I hit 35, there were things I couldn't do which I'd done previously, and they had been completely natural to me.

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

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

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.

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won't be able to keep up forever.

As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.

It sucks getting old.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.