Gareth Barry Quotes

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

I want to play until I'm 38.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

I'm not going to be 50 and playing. I hope I'm 40, but 50, no.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'

The workload with Test cricket was too much as I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

I will try to keep going as long as I can. I'd love to play until the age of 40 - it will be interesting to see if I can do that.

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can't push the sport and yourself if you're always hurt.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

I want to play at a good level for as long as possible and just stay healthy.