Star Brisbane veteran Dayne Zorko is eager to emulate NBA famous person LeBron James by enjoying into his late 30s – and he has the lure of premiership success as his motivation.
Zorko will flip 35 on February 9, however says his physique is feeling contemporary and he has put no finish date on his glittering profession.
The former skipper has already racked up 250 AFL appearances – and by no means performed fewer than 16 video games in a marketing campaign.
Brisbane’s heartbreaking four-point loss to Collingwood in final yr’s grand ultimate has solely served to additional gasoline Zorko’s starvation.
James remains to be going robust for the Los Angeles Lakers at 39 years of age.
Zorko is eager to maintain pushing his personal physique to the restrict till he can not compete on the elite degree.
“I will not be putting a limit on how long I play on. I feel great, the body’s feeling great,” Zorko stated on Wednesday.
“We’ll simply take it because it comes.
“How outdated’s LeBron, 40 odd? Yeah, we’ll simply hold going till I’m fully damaged down, or Danny (soccer supervisor Danny Daly) comes and faucets me on the shoulder..
“But the way I’m feeling and pulling up after training, I feel fantastic.”
As for what nonetheless motivates Zorko?
“Pretty easy – still chasing that premiership,” he stated.
“To come so close was disappointing, but it is what it is. We’ve got an opportunity to go around again and try to rewrite the script.”
Zorko stated he moved on shortly from the grand ultimate loss to Collingwood, and stated there have been necessary learnings to take from it.
“There’s no doubt you always want to stay ahead of the game, and on that day, Collingwood had a few tricks we hadn’t seen before,” Zorko stated.
“It’s always important to have a trick up your sleeve, and credit to Collingwood, they had a couple we hadn’t seen, and it caught us out a little bit at the end.
“We must take a leaf out of their e-book and take a look at alternative ways we are able to change issues up and provides opposition completely different appears.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au