Quotes About Youth

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

A modern school where football is taught.