Quotes About Youth

When you're 17, touring is fun.

Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

You will often see a young player have something of a hangover following a major tournament.

The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.

I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That's what he did with me when I was 15.

I'd gone to watch Wortley play in their home tournament but they didn't have enough players so I played for them. I got scouted by a guy called Sonny Sweeney and went to Leeds City Boys.

As a kid everyone has dreams of winning their ultimate tournament and being number one in the world.

The 'Halo' series is my favorite. Me and my friends actually played in tournaments and won some money doing that when we were younger.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

I didn't play juniors, really. I only played Roland Garros juniors and maybe some European tournaments.

The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver. My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden, we're going to tournaments, and we're driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.

Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.