Stephen Rodrick Quotes

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

Do I know A.J. Styles and I could have an amazing match? Seth Rollins and I could tear it down and have a classic? Yeah, if it were me at 35, not me at 45. And not me at 45 not having stepped in a ring for eight years.

It's always difficult to say if anyone is in the best form of their career.

In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game - I'm not one of them - who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.

You don't see too many attacking flair players continuing until their mid-30s at a high level.

I can say I am playing some of the best football of my career at 31. So maybe I can play better as I get older.

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

Being in the league six years, things have kind of slowed down for me.

As a running back, when you get the ball year after year - and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side - you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can't do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.