As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

I’m much healthier now.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I run New York City!

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

How young can you die of old age?

Working out anchors my day.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

The older you get, the better you get.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.