Earl Campbell Quotes

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.

A lot of people will comment, 'All the high flying will catch up to you.' I think any form of wrestling will catch up to you.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

I don't think there's a person out there who can say they haven't done something they regret.

I cheated on my first wife, Kristin. I thought I was untouchable. How could I be that inconsiderate to someone?

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.