Gary Speed Quotes

My one big regret is that I didn't play on for ten more years.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

I don't have any complaints. I cannot say I miss playing for the West Indies that much.

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

Playing at the highest level alongside your friends, scoring runs for your country are things that I look back and go, 'Ah, I miss that a little bit,' but there's a lot I don't miss. I don't miss 90 per cent of it.

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

Obviously, I want to be a Steeler for my whole life.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

When I retire, I'm going to go home and say, 'I played for what?' You know, if I don't win anything.

It's hard to know when to call it a day as a footballer.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

Football's not forever.

I love watching the Six Nations.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

We can never go back.