Richie Benaud Quotes

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

The good old days are now.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

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.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit.

I don't remember a lot of the good times from my days with the Truckers.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

I am not someone who holds grudges, and I want to remember the good things about our time with Mourinho.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

People forget years and remember moments.