Willie McCovey Quotes

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'