Glenn Hoddle Quotes

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

What you are comes to you.

I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

I look at the past and I see myself.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.