Dick Schaap Quotes

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

I learned from my past.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.