Ivan Lendl Quotes

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

There are endless what-ifs that have really made me have an appreciation for my journey and everything I have experienced along the way.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

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

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

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.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.