Michael Schumacher Quotes

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.