Quotes About Youth

Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever you're good at.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

I watched other boys play baseball and other games, but I was too sickly to join in the fun.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

I know I used to play basketball every day, whether it was for fun with my older brother or if it was organized basketball on teams.

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out at each other's houses. I can knock on the person's house two doors down and grab some food and just hang out or go into the backyard and play basketball when they're not there.

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

I wouldn't let my children play football.

I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.

When you are young and you play football, you must play in the street. When you go to a club at the age of five, and the coach says you must pass this, eat this, drink this... it's not a life. Young people must train for themselves, play football every day, and not have three coaches, with each one saying this and this.

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

I don't want to be perceived as the money-grabbing 20-year-old; I just want to be perceived as the kid who loves to play football.