C they probably think he is a foolish old man and should give up fishing
by putting the sentence in your own words but the same subject
also if its a website then you can copy the link from the cite and paste it in your response
It's more important to what a person does because as they say, actions speak louder than words do. A person can think a certain way but not act on it but what a person does reflects what they decide internally and what they wanted to do with that idea externally showing that they are serious with that idea of theirs in their head.
Most words tend to do that depending on how you use them and where they are located