Skill Decline Quotes

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.

The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

I don't practice very much anymore.

When you realise that the ball is faster than you, you say to yourself, 'OK, I love the game. I want to go on in this game, but not as a player.'