Athletic Prime Quotes

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

Every year it happens. When I'm not putting up big numbers, I start hearing it - that I'm too old, that time finally has caught up with me.

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

I still don't think the world has seen the best Andre Ward. Initially, I just wanted to get in there and win.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

For goalkeepers, the better years, they say, come from the age of 27 or 28.

I think in 1997, I was in my absolute prime. I was never bitter; I was uninjured. I was ready to go and ready to make some serious changes to make a difference to have my all-time favorite matches that I would have loved to have.

Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.

I always knew that my best tennis was going to be in my late 20s.

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

When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live.

There are only a certain amount of years you can play this game, and it's even a lower amount for a running back.

It's a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I'm 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.