Quotes About Youth

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

I read an essay by a little girl ... She wrote,' I am nothing and nobody. My cat was stuck to the wall. I tried to pull her off but they threw my cat away.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

Op zijn twintigste is iedereen intelligent; met de tijd wordt het steeds moeilijker om intelligent te blijven. Maar misschien leer je dan ter compensatie om gelukkig te zijn.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.