Edgar Davids Quotes

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Football has never been about young or old players - it is about good or bad players. If you're 13 or 31 and good enough, you're not too young or old.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

Poppy does not identify with an age.

The best players must play - it does not matter whether they are old or young.

At Ajax, they don't worry about your age. If you're good enough, you play.

I'm not interested in nationality. Players are neither English, French, or any nationality. They are not young or old. They are stronger or not strong.

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.

I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

I'm anti-ageism in the arts.