Quotes About Youth

I think I'm the first 1990-born guy to win a Masters 1000, so it's quite special to be the first one in a very strong group of guys. There are a lot of guys playing great, and hopefully there are going to be a lot more coming.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don't have time to be depressed anymore.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan and I it was the start of our careers.

My first thing was a McDonald's commercial.

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I made my first World Championships team at 12.

Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

I saw 'Seinfeld' on TV and told my mum that would be something cool to try one day, and she was like, OK, 'Here is a five-year-old telling me what they want to when they grow up' sort of thing, and what would they know, right!

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit - but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son's friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he's more likely to listen.

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

Blatant hostility and racism toward whites is common among black youth.