Donald Bren Quotes

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

The good old days are now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

You have to live in the present; not on memories.