I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
I'm not the same fighter I used to be.
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.
Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
'Married with Children,' we were good until the fifth or sixth season, and then we limped into the 11th season.
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
My career has been over since 1990.
The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.
I am declined Into the vale of years.
If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.
It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
