Michael Beasley Quotes

As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.

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

The older you get, the more difficult it is to keep your body right.

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

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

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

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

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

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

When you get older, you've got to find some things differently because sometimes your body won't allow you do what you. When you're younger you can do a lot of stuff, moving around.

Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.

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

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

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

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

When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.

Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.