Roger Clemens Quotes

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

I spent seven years in Green Bay. A lot of good times, a lot of great years. Got a lot accomplished.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.