Bill Goldberg Quotes

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

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

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

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.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

I have wasted my hours.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.