“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”
“I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.”
As quoted at "Calzaghe nicks round one" at BBC Sport (8 February 2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A32124377
2000s, 2008
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