Athletic Longevity Quotes

Fighters can fight into their 50s. Why not?

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.

I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

Every year it happens. When I'm not putting up big numbers, I start hearing it - that I'm too old, that time finally has caught up with me.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

As long as the body feels OK, I'm enjoying playing, helping the team improve and taking wickets, I'll keep going.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.

I'm shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.

There's some glory years, where if you play long enough and you've figured the game out, and physically you're still healthy enough, there are some years in there where you can really be productive. And those are fun years.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.