Usain Bolt Quotes

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Ideally, I want to get out of the sport at least when I'm 30-31. I don't want to be one of those guys who stays around too long, so I want to get as many fights in as I can.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

You don't see too many attacking flair players continuing until their mid-30s at a high level.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

As a running back, when you get the ball year after year - and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side - you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can't do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

Before I was a manager, I was a player for 11 years.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.

Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

I'm thankful that I have been able to play so long and still be healthy. I'm not all banged up and beaten down. I still feel good. But as much as I would love to play forever, I know that I can't.