Bernard Hopkins Quotes

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

In America, the old are neglected.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

I used to think 63 was old.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.