A Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American - Writer
August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.

Richard Linklater

In golf, you keep trying to score well when you're ahead. In basketball, they don't quit shooting when they're ahead. In hockey, they don't quit shooting the puck when they're ahead. And in boxing, you don't quit punching when you're ahead. But in football, somehow magically, you're supposed to quit playing when you're ahead.

Mike Leach

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

George Brett

Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

Jack Benny

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

Mark Foster

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Patrick Stump

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.

Matthew Barnett

You only grow old when you stop playing.

Xzibit

Our job is to find players younger, where they are able to play from 11 years old and grow up playing the game. Rather than, you start playing when you are 17 or 18 and you don't get the opportunity to do anything with your career.

Masai Ujiri

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

Satchel Paige

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

Travis Bradberry

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Frank Peretti

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