Benjamin Jowett Quotes

It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later.

It is always awfully easy to say what she would have done after you haven’t done it

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'

I have to watch my moves very carefully because if there are people to support you, there are also those who would like nothing more than to see you fall.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

When you're not winning it's easy to complain!

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

Stop taking things personally. Throughout the time with "Kitchen Nightmares" and "Hotel Hell," when they work, you don't get any praise. When they fail, you get blamed. You're f - ed either way, but it doesn't stop me doing them, I think.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it...I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.