Lionel Hampton Quotes

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

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

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

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

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

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.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

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.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

If I am still fighting at 35 I will be disappointed.

I don't care what age I am. If I continue to train and feel good and enjoy the locker room and this organization wants me and I feel I can do it, I'm going to do it, no matter what my age.

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

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

I want to play until I'm 38.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.