Quotes About Regret

if I could just have twenty seconds alone with younger, stupider me . . . But there are some mistakes you never get to take back. And there are some experiences there is no returning from.

if I could love him less, then maybe I could forgive him more.

That's a central life question, don't you think? Do you regret the things you did, or the things never done?

Shit! We're idiots.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.