Jay Kay Quotes

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.

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

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

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

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

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

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

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

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

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

I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.

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

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

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.

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'll never believe I'm any older than 18. I get angry when my body can't do what an 18-year-old's does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it's quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

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.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

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.