Neal Stephenson Quotes

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

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

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

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.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

I think I've slowed down quite a bit. I don't try or attempt even half of the stuff I used to want to try way back in the day when I was a lot younger. It takes a toll on the body throughout the years.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.