Bonnie Blair Quotes

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.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

I have great memories.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

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.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

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

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

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.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

If I could go back in time, I'd return to when my parents were alive and appreciate them more than I did when I was growing up.