Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

When my knee feels good, I'm always going to feel I can do more.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

I'll try to play as long as I can stay healthy.

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

I don't jog anymore 'cuz my knees hurt and stuff like that. I walk a lot and I am really slowing down walking.

As you get older, things don't work as well. I do Pilates, and that helps.

I will play until my knee, my ankle or my back say 'stop.'

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.