Aging Athletes Quotes

Fighters can fight into their 50s. Why not?

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.

A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

Some guys go to different teams and as they get older, they just want to ride the coattail of the younger guys. I don't want to do that.

Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.

You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

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.'

Sometimes when you get older, you need to tone down the trash talking, and sometimes you need younger fighters to bring it out of you.

[Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..."

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

For me it's just amazing that I grew up watching Tim Duncan and KG and Kobe and Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson and all those guys and now it's like, 'Man, I can't believe they actually got old.' It's like they actually walked away. It's crazy to think about, but the game has to keep moving.

What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.

I'm not really worried about my numbers now as a 36-year-old. I'm not trying to be the first, experimental case of a 36-year-older trying to maintain his numbers, especially when I'm on a team like this. Can I do the same stuff I could do when I was Amare's age? Of course not. I'm not going to even try. However, I feel that I'm the baddest 36-year-old out there.

I find it quite sad to see the likes of Evander Holyfield carrying on past their sell-by date.

As long as you keep your body healthy quarterback is a position where you should get better as you age.

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.

Senior tennis is like the younger game in slow motion. It is much more of a backcourt game. The player who had a big game in his prime finds it harder to play that same game as a senior. But any senior who could lob well when he was young can still hit a good lob.