Quotes About Youth

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I'm going to wait until I'm 20 before I start calling out world champions.

I think we have to get more kids into the sport in order to grow American champions. And the way to do that is that kids 10-and-under have to keep tennis as their first sport.

Give kids the chance to be champions.

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

When I was young, I always wanted to play in the Champions League.

To play in the Champions League is an experience a player of 33 may not have had in his whole career. To be doing that at 18... well, it's such a bonus.

It's been a dream of mine since I was a young boy. Even back then, I had decided that one day I would play in the Champions League.

The Champions League is massive. I've had so much experience. I'm only 23, and yet I've played so much in the Champions League, and not many players my age would have had that experience.

When I was five years old I would see Champions League games and I asked God to let me have a part in these games and to show my quality to the world and to be famous for football and to try my best.

Until I was 16 years old, I didn't even know there was a Champions League.

In Brazil, young boys dream of playing in the Champions League and I'm very proud to have realized my dream.

When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship - that's when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.

Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

When you're in high school and you win the state championship, there's no better feeling.

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.

Arsenal gave me the opportunity to come to Europe when I was 17. I didn't have as many opportunities as I expected and I had to try new chances.

I'm not from the generation that took chances.

When you fall in love with a younger woman, you've got to realise that the chances are they are going to want a family.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Children can change the world.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.