Quotes About Youth

I played soccer when I was little, but I wasn't very good at it.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.

I will always support not only women who do soccer, but do youth sports.

I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.

I used to play soccer when I was little, but everybody played soccer when they were little.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.