Satchel Paige Quotes

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

Age for me is just a number.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

The age thing is just a number.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

I've always felt that age is just a number - it's not how old or how young you are, it's how you conduct yourself.

Now that I'm 40, I knew I wasn't going to pass for 25.

Years do not always make age.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.