Mickey Rourke Quotes

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

As a footballer I know what I'm good at and I've now embraced it.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

Tennis has given me soul.

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

My background is as an athlete, and you know, we in the Marines, when we want something, we go after it.

Every game I play, I try to make sure I get something out of that match. So as a cricketer, I feel you have to move forward and keep believing in your ability.

My uncle saw me fight in front of my house and one day he wanted to turn something negative into a positive, so he took me to the gym and I've been there ever since.

I took the time to mentally figure out what I needed to do to be the best basketball player I could be for my team.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

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.

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.