Prime Years Quotes

I'm a big fan of Barry Sanders and I respect him a lot. He's a guy that a lot of people talk about. He retired early and fans would have loved to see him, like myself, play three or four more years.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

I'm like, 'Man, if I'm going to have this idle time, I might as well be in school, do something positive where I'm not just wasting my prime years and not getting something else in return.' If I'm in school and training, that's OK. I did that in college. It worked.

I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.

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

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

I left Green Bay for Seattle in 1999. I wonder what would have happened had I stayed in Green Bay, where I've got one of the best quarterbacks of all time in his prime.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

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

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

Joining Lazio at 26 years old, I'm in my prime.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

On my wish list, a guy I would have loved to work with in our prime would have been Shawn Michaels.

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

Lob City doesn't exist anymore. Lob City is done.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.