Misty Copeland Quotes

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

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.

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

I just turned 27 years old, and there are mornings where my knees and ankles really hurt. I hurt all over. I would hate to be me when I'm 35 years old. I'll be a basket case, but I will have a lot of memories.

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they're really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that's my terrible workout. I know that's not really a workout.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.