Quotes About Youth

We have to change the way we coach kids in the long-term so that by the time they hit 16, they are better than the Spanish, French, and German players. That is the big challenge, but the No. 1 criteria for me has always been how you are technically judged, from the age of eight, not size or power.

Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

If I could have played on another five years, I would have stayed here because Botafogo have a young, competitive team. We've improved not only technically but also as a team. Even after me, Botafogo will remain great.

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

The way I play, people might say I'm not technically the best. They say I'm powerful, I'm strong. But one thing I learned from when I was young is how to help my team win the game. And that's scoring goals and being strong.

As a young performer, what you need to be doing is building your technique and musicality, not promoting your abilities - unless you're ready to take on all that will result from such an approach.

I'm honoured and blessed to even be in the UFC, much less be 19 years old in the UFC, knowing I have so much time to learn, so much technique to learn, everything all around to make myself better.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

It was only when I got to Tottenham as a youth player that they said, 'You need to be good in the air.' It was made clear I was going be a target man, so I had to start working on my technique.

I look at some kids and they head the ball with the top of the head and their technique is all wrong, therefore the pressure that it's putting on the brain is a lot more.

Xavi was a big idol in my youth because he was smart in his head. He was not the biggest player because of his body length, but he was one of the greatest players because he was always smart in his mind. He had really good technique.

The age between seven and 14 is so important. The basic techniques are in that, and afterwards it's mentality. Tactically, between seven and 14 or six and 14, they have to have good coaches and understand the basic things of football: control the ball, know where the ball is, those kinds of things.

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

When you're growing up you also like to go out and party a lot, and the music that we would hear going out would be techno and electronica. And earlier stuff like the Prodigy. It kind of stood out from everything else. Y'know, 'Firestarter,' where did that come out of? It sounded alien and otherworldly.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.