Mick Foley Quotes

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games'... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

I never thought I would not play for my country.