Quotes About Youth

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, 'If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.' So it was a great thrill to play there.

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.

I remember watching William Hartnell as the first 'Doctor.' Black and white made it very scary for a youngster like myself. I was petrified, but even though I'd watch most of it from behind the sofa through my fingers, I became a fan.

When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.

As a youngster, you normally have to play. How will you be one of the best not playing?

As a youngster, I really enjoyed watching cricket.

I really wanted to play in the Premier League, which I'd been watching since I was a youngster every Saturday or Sunday before I'd go and play for Rosario Central.

Bottom line: nothing of note happened when I was a youngster, really. I went to Princeton, which is where I met my wife.

As a youngster, you take a lot of things to heart, so you have to learn to trust yourself.

When I was a youngster my grandparents took me sightseeing and we went on the London Eye.

Back in the days, being able to join the Jean-Marc Guillou academy was one of the best things that could happen to a youngster from Ivory Coast. There were thousands of kids who wanted to join that school so it was a great feeling for me.

I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting to be like him, wanting to play on the team with him and watching those older guys in my neighborhood play sports.

As a youngster, I got so much attention because I was ahead of the other kids - even when I was eight, nine years old. But I never was really seeking attention, so I didn't care about scoring 30, 40 points.

Once cricket is seen as a possible profession, a youngster's life can be so altered that cricket becomes second nature to him.

I know what was happening to me during the 2012 London Olympics. I was in a fantasy world. You look this side, Usain Bolt is walking, Serena Williams is sitting next to you and having food. So that is really a fantasy world for a youngster.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.