Quotes About Longevity

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!

I have always thought winning on its own is not enough. You have to have continuity in what you do. The things you do have to last.

I was just trying to make it to a second contract before guys. I was trying to outplay guys on the field and trying to last longer than them in the league. I think all of those things go through your head when you're a late-rounder, and you're always trying to prove people wrong.

I want to play as long as I can contribute.

My pride is the length of time I have worked in the industry without any major controversy.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count me out on that.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

I want to be a Cowboy for life.

No matter what happens in the future, I still want to be like Carlin, like Dangerfield where I can hit a stage when I'm 85 and still here people cracking up.

I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

I've been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

The 'aha' moment came one to me one morning when I was applying my mascara, and I realized that the retirement crisis is actually a woman's crisis: Women live longer than men yet retire with less money.

I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.

If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

Guys taking damage need to be compensated for the shortness of their career.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?