Quotes About Youth

One of the things I did well as a young kid was to link well with the rest of the team, so I reckon it's something which is natural for me.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

If I'm called up by any England team, I'm willing to go. I'm not going to pull out of any England team. Ask any young kid who wants to play for their national team, and everyone's the same. We're all dying to do it.

As a young kid, you never really understand what it takes to be a footballer: what it's like after you've won or what the changing room is like after a loss, or, as an individual, have you played a good game? Have you played a bad game?

Most people I know think that I'm crazy - but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn't think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star - a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.

I can remember being a young kid, twelve, thirteen years old just with my headphones on, on the train, listening to rappers paint these vivid pictures. Listening to Mobb Deep and feeling like I was in Queensbridge even though I'm on the Southside of Chicago.

Every young kid growing up playing football dreams of playing in those big famous stadiums.

'Jim Thorpe - All American' influenced me as a young kid.

Honey Buns, that was my go-to. I mean, when I first came into the league, I was a young kid eating everything.

When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.

For me as a young kid, my parents took me to random cities. I stayed at my relatives and the biggest trouble I had was watching TV on my own.

Being a young kid from the hood in Paris, growing up in poverty and then scoring the goal that took Chelsea to the Champions League semi-finals, that felt like a great achievement.

For a young kid to be expected at 15, 16, 17 years old to know what to do - it's hard. It's a tough ask.

I had spent three years in jails and prisons, and then all of a sudden I'm in Japan in this dojo. It was just so surreal. I was this young kid and nobody even knew what I was doing there.

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

When I was a young kid, I didn't have a lot of confidence.

I am passionate about dance, I grew up in dance, I was a young kid competing in dance, so I have a great perspective on it.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

When I do a lot of the community outreach with the youth, I can easily see the blessings that I've had in my life, even as a young kid growing up.

The Paralympics have given me so much, and I know what this sport can do for a young kid when it's at its best.

When I was just a young kid who grew up in the inner city of Cleveland, I used to catch the bus downtown to grab a dollar hot dog at Public Square.

I made the team for the 2008 Olympics and you're playing the U.S.A. in the quarter-finals and it's like, this is awesome, this is a great feeling. We lose the game. And as a young kid like you don't understand really what that means, you just got your backside handed to you by all-time greats.

It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'