Quotes About Experience

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

The older you get, the more you learn.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.