Aaron Donald Quotes

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

The people would think I was a fool for not having taken twice as much.

After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should've stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

Many times after a game, I get the feeling that I have not done enough, I should have done better, of course there is room for improvement.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?

If you come away with a 1-1 result, that's obviously a disappointing feeling. You start to look at what you could have done better.

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.