John Stockton Quotes

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Age considers; youth ventures.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

You slow down when you get older.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.

I'm not the biggest dude, and I'm not the fastest dude.

Yeah, I'm pretty old. I think I do still got it, though.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.