Paul Newman Quotes

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

My memory's not too good.

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

When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

The memory loss made me jittery at times.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.

I don't think I'll be fighting when I'm 40.

It hurts me not to be able to communicate like I used to. I used to be pretty good at coming back, you know, quick one-liners.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.

My memory is not that good anymore.