Tryon Edwards Quotes

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

As long as you can laugh, you are not old.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

A woman is as young as her knees.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

I am an old man and sometimes I struggle to keep up with some of the youngsters on the circuits. But at the same time, it is keeping me young.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Half the time, I feel like I'm 12. And the rest of the time, I feel like I'm 80. So I guess I'm somewhere in between. No, I feel great. I've got my health, and that's the most important thing.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.