Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
I no longer have it (desire to play).
If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.
I had more energy at 25 and did more jiving around. People got to understand that when you're not so interested in something, you're not gonna do it to the best of your ability. I used to get excited working the crowd, but no more.
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.
You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.
One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'
Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.
One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.
I think the morale of Taliban fighters has been affected adversely as a result of the lack of success.