Peter Schmeichel Quotes

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

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

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 retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

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

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

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.

I do not want to be 36 years old and can hardly walk.

I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be.

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

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I'll never believe I'm any older than 18. I get angry when my body can't do what an 18-year-old's does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it's quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty.

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

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.

When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

They say with age your reflexes slow down. I've not felt it.

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

It sucks getting old.

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.