Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can.

I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

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

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

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.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.

I can't even remember playing a game without pain.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

In the past, whenever I had a niggle, I would ignore it and let it heal on its own. Now, I tell the physio that I am facing some difficulty.

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

Don't get me wrong: if I was healthy, I would love to continue playing, but I'm not healthy.

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.