Quotes About Aging

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.

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

I never dye my own hair, I don't know if I could get every spot, and I have a good bit of grey.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else's.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

I think the main thing I'd bring to Chewbacca is middle-aged spread. Chewbacca has looked after himself.

As you get older, you get less people to hold you accountable, especially in pro sports. The players have all the power. Unless you play for the Spurs. Then you're a college kid for life.

When you get older, you want to be playing. I'm not one who would want to be sitting around as part of the squad, making up the numbers. I am conscious that I want to be playing and making a contribution to the team.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

You cannot be in your 50s and not change your diet. That ministry won't work. You can't keep eating burgers and fries and thinking you're going to look cute and fabulous and trying to squeeze into that little black dress.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,' and I'd say no? That's rude.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.