Regrets...

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Do we have any sports regrets? Whether it bet $500 bucks on a certain game, or make a dirty move that caused you to be suspended. It could be anything at all.

[Shakamaker]

I've got a very good left foot, and I regret not being able to put it to good use on the sports field when I was in school. I had a singing scholarship pay my way through an expensive school, and as such was too busy singing to be allowed to play ball sports.

[Rated R]

I was a damn good baseball player when I was young, I had the potential to hone my skills and go far with it. I got to an age however where I did not want to do anything at all. I gave up baseball and never looked back...until I was a junior in high school. I was watching a game on tv between the Blue Jays and White Sox and remembered how much I loved the game. Every once in a while I think about this and I am saddened but at the same time glad that I had the opportunity to play at all. I miss baseball, and maybe I'll join an adult league someday, just for kicks

[RicochetShaw]

Originally posted by Rated R
I was a damn good baseball player when I was young, I had the potential to hone my skills and go far with it. I got to an age however where I did not want to do anything at all. I gave up baseball and never looked back...until I was a junior in high school. I was watching a game on tv between the Blue Jays and White Sox and remembered how much I loved the game. Every once in a while I think about this and I am saddened but at the same time glad that I had the opportunity to play at all. I miss baseball, and maybe I'll join an adult league someday, just for kicks


I had a similar experience with golf. I used to golf a lot when I was younger, and loved it. But after my instructor quit his job I never really bothered looking for another one, and gradually.... gave it up. Every now and then I see golf on TV and feel a pit of regret in my stomach as I think how good I'd be by now if I had stuck with it through the years. :( Oh well.

But I went to a driving range this summer, and it reminded me how frustrating that sport really is! :D

[Haddonfield]

Ill go a different route. Last season the Pats, coming off a Super Bowl Win, were down about 3 points on the line during there first two games. Needless to say they won them both and I COULD have made a killing if common sence diddnt prevail.

DAMN!

[Grebdron]

I was too much of a stoner to play sports as a kid. I found out later in life that I was QUITE good at both basketball and football. Good enough to have put myself through college playing either, or both. Outside chance of being good enough to make money at it.

Alas, I'm too old now.:(

[Benny]

I regret picking Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh to make the Super Bowl at the beginning of this season!

[bob]

Losing weight several years before starting to play hockey, and then not being able to gain it back!

[jeo4]

Watching the 2003 MLB Playoffs...UGH! How many times in my life will I have to see the Sox and Cubs lose?? At least I never repeated my mistake by watching the World Series.

[Jyrka]

I regret not joining my beloved football(soccer for you crazy numbnuts) team when I was around ten, man. I would be dead good, DEAD GOOD!

[martyds761]

Not taking the offer to compete in the Olympics because I was starting a MS Degree. Wish I would've done it now.

[Morgana]

Originally posted by martyds761
Not taking the offer to compete in the Olympics because I was starting a MS Degree. Wish I would've done it now.

Sacrilege! Which sport did you have the chance to compete in the 'lympics in?

[ToRontoRon]

I regret taking Baltimore, Denver, Washington, Carolina and Green Bay against the spread in the 4:00 games. I was in 3rd out of about 60 in my pool, with the top 3 getting money at the end of the year, and this is just going to kill me.:(

[ToRontoRon]

Originally posted by ToRontoRon
I regret taking Baltimore, Denver, Washington, Carolina and Green Bay against the spread in the 4:00 games. I was in 3rd out of about 60 in my pool, with the top 3 getting money at the end of the year, and this is just going to kill me.:(

Okay, Green Bay came back and won. But 1-4 still isn't good enough.

[MarkItZero]

None that I can think of.

The sports I played, I played to the best of my ability as far as my skills and shaky knees would take me. (Unless of course I could regret an injury!)

I suppose the only thing I really regret was that I was too young to really appreciate the greatness of Walter Payton. Damn my parents!!

[martyds761]

I had the chance in Rugby. You know what they say, Hindsight is 50/50.

[quoth_the_raven]

I could have done well playing rugby. and i also regret my brother not pushing on his soccer, because he was shit hot.

[Shakamaker]

"What I regret is having to come to places like this and talk to people like you".

- Part of one of John McEnroe's funniest post-match interviews.

[Morgana]

I don't really have any regrets as far as participation in sports goes, I think I've done it all. Possibly the only regret I have is having taken my high school track coach's advice many years ago... my ankles were getting to be very sore, and he just told me to ice them, but to keep on running. Well, I did, and I ended up with such a horrible case of ankle tendinitis I had to miss a week of school. My ankles were so weak and so painful I couldn't even walk. I never knew such misery was possible.

Kids, a coach doesn't necessarily ALWAYS know what's best. ;)

[MarkItZero]

Originally posted by Morgana
Kids, a coach doesn't necessarily ALWAYS know what's best. ;)

And that is the truth. I coached a swim team for one summer. And I had no idea what I was doing. I just figured that being the coach would be a good excuse to not have to practice every morning at 6:30am in the cold ass water!