Bart Gordon Quotes

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

There is always a time to move on.

Aging is a synonym for living.

Every president is not only a new president. He comes in a new age.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

Getting older is a fact of life.

Before you know it, I'm not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We're all getting older, so I'm trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that's being thrown at me.

Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

You can't be 25 all the time.

Once I started to retire, I was telling all of the girls in my generation, 'Wow I feel like an outsider in this locker room because this whole new generation of women has stepped in,' and that was one of the signs where I said maybe it's time to retire.

With time, you do get mature.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

WWE is home; it's a family. I'll always be a part of this as long as I can contribute in some positive way. But I know there's a time when the sun sets on everything.

The older you get, the more you've done.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.