Josh Gordon Quotes

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.

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

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

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

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.