Roger Clemens Quotes

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won't be able to keep up forever.

When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn away from a helter skelter. It's a very strange thing when you hit a certain age.

You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.

I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn't make me happy.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

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.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.