John Layfield Quotes

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

I had pretty much accepted the fact I was going to be a stay-at-home mom and do my other adventures in life. I thought coming back to the WWE was out of the cards for me.

After that defeat by Joshua in 2015, I changed my trainer and teamed up with Mark Tibbs. I began working at Loughborough University.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.

Post 'Shaitan,' I felt frustrated, as I was not getting the kind of work that I wanted to do.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.