Questlove Quotes

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

I don't work out or watch what I eat - but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.

I have learnt to give my health priority and not to dismiss any health issue.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.