I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.
I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.
Hollywood must have been terrific once.
There was a time when I was called the wizard of the box-office.
Let's face it, I'm a has-been.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
And once by God, I was a Marine!
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.
Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.
I was the future once.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.
I couldn't ever be a better player than I was in 1988.
When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.
All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.
The older I get the better I used to be!
