If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Recorded Wayne Rooney said elsewhere, not written here
Looking back, if I was to go back in time, I probably would have sat out the World Cup because it was a big ask to get fit after six weeks out.

Rooney - The Man Behind The Goals, BBC Sport, 29 September 2015 source ↗

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Kevin Rowland British singer
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗

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