Joan Rivers Quotes

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

I can't even touch my toes!

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.

When I was younger, I always thought, 'I can do anything' but I felt myself turning slower, picking up hamstring injuries. It went from bad to worse.

My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.

I'm healthy - for a gymnast.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.