Gail Kim Quotes

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I don't want to pitch forever.

I am tired, I would like to rest, it’s time for the country to be ruled by younger leaders.

Wrestling is all I've known since I was 17 so it's time I let myself focus on other things and explored other parts of myself.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.