Older Players Quotes

Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

For young players, classic games are brand new. For older players, they bring back memories and make you feel good.

It is always interesting to hear older players come back and talk.

It's hard for the older boys to play twice a week, so it's important for everyone in the squad to play their part.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.

When you play against older players, it's always a challenge physically and mentally.

I think as an older player, there's a kind of natural responsibility or natural role to go around the lads and say a few things. I had it when I came into the team; when you look to the older boys in certain situations to see what they say, see how they act, and see what they expect.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

As I get slower and older, I'm going to shoot more threes.

When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.

I think any of the older guys you can poll throughout the NBA, they're super-regimented. Because as long as that body lasts, your mind should be better; your shot should be better. But the reality is, at some point, your body does break down - you do get older - so it's just, how do you prolong that as long as possible?

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

I think, from just playing street ball and stuff like that, I was always able to play up with the older guys, and I think that got me physically and mentally prepared to play on a high level of basketball.

A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money in modern football.