Barry Bonds Quotes

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

I don't reflect back too much on moments in my career.

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As I get older, I find a greater sense of self-confidence. I've learned that it's fine to not try to be anything else but myself.

I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.