Player Age Quotes

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

I do not understand players going to China at the age of 27 or 28. Those guys are at the peak of their career. That is a waste, really. You only get one career. I sort of understand players who are already in their 30s.

Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live.

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.

In Minnesota, we were caught between rebuilding or trying to continue to build around Kevin Garnett. I got caught right in the middle of that. KG was at an age where he was a good player, but he couldn't carry a team anymore. I think my inexperience as far as being a head coach hurt me there.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

To say a player is past it at 29, 30 isn't right.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

When you're usually competing and contending, you're not relying on younger players to produce for you.

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between 23 and 24. I think in three years, they'll be well-armed to play qualifiers.

The best players must play - it does not matter whether they are old or young.

Lots of great players, like Zidane and Figo, are about the same age as me.

That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.

Too many young guys on one team isn't good.