“These long years later it is worse
for I remember what it was
as well as what it might have been.”

“The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.”

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

“In such a picture the artist may depart from actual fact, from what actually was, so long as he does not exceed what might have been.”

“I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.”

“As a child, I'd wonder, 'When I die, will people still remember me 1,000 years later?' And without the gold medal … Well, the Olympics are the ultimate achievement in my sport. At times I think, 'Why should I push myself all those long hours in the rink?' But then I think, 'How will I ever know how good I could have been?' I want to be the Michael Jordan of my sport.”

“What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.”

“In politics, what's not reported might as well not have happened.”

“What if it's boring… or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.”

“Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind”