Caster Semenya Quotes

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

Presumably, with age, you mellow down.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

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.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.