Edgar Davids Quotes

One faces the future with one's past.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

Every chapter in life helps you move forward.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

I believe my past is my strength.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.