Michael Ballack Quotes

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

By working hard, age is just a number.

When you are a professional, you go into the next game wanting to win.

We know it's a young man's game.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

I work every day like I was running for re-election and the race was tight. That's the only way I know how. That's what my mother taught me.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

I don't feel like I'm slowing down.

The appetite and fight for winning a game outweighs any other thoughts.

When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.