Roddy Piper Quotes

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

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

My memory's not too good.

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

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

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.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I'm 57 years old, and I host a quiz show every single day. I got asked in a recent interview, did I feel that hosting a quiz show helps keep my brain sharp? And I asked - would you ask Stephen Fry that question, who is exactly the same age as me? Somehow, I'm managing to stand up and stay cogent despite my incredible age.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.