Joe Rogan Quotes

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

Sports life is very short.

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.

In this league, it's all about being close to 100 percent on game day.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?

I want to play until I'm 38.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'

You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

Fighters can fight into their 50s. Why not?

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.