Quotes About Youth

When I was 14 I had a trial for Tottenham. They were thinking of signing me but my mum said no. She said education comes first. Did I hate her at the time? You couldn't imagine. I was crying and all sorts.

I was at a local club, Penketh United, and Mike Glennie, a Manchester United scout, came to watch me. He spoke to my grandad and offered me trials, but there was also interest from Liverpool, and I had to pick - I was only young, but obviously my heart was with United at the time.

When my family moved to Karachi, I just knew the date and month of my birth and not the exact year. That is why my age was erroneously recorded in the under-14 trials.

The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I myself really did not know my exact age.

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials, but it wasn't a realistic dream, it was a kid's dream.

I've played football since I was seven - but loved basketball. Cire, who is one of six brothers, always played in the top two divisions in France. At the age of 15, I started having football trials. And, when I compared myself to other players, I thought, 'why them and not me?'

There was a time when I was studying in school when one of my coaches clearly told me I shouldn't be bowling at selection trials. We had a couple of off spinners from our own school and he said that if I bowled off spin, their chances would get affected. So, I didn't really bowl at the trials till I was in my late teens.

I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless.

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

We are this world. Its next generation. If you're not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)