Sports Regret Quotes

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.

There's nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I've done that.

Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.

I will miss football.

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

I don't watch any NBA games today, because it makes me sad: I want to be back out there.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

I regret that I never learned how to play on the perimeter.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

I still say, to this day, I could not guard Nigel Lloyd.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

I played a lot of games for Villa, and one of my regrets is not winning a trophy there - that still hurts, and that's why the big games are important.

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.