Quotes About Youth

The future of AEW is Maxwell J. Friedman, without a shadow of a doubt. I am going to be the face of this company. At the tender age of 23... people think I'm great now? They don't know the half of it. I mean, my career's only just begun.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.

For someone to have faith in you at the tender age of 16 is massive.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

I started out with a tennis racquet. Later, during one of the breaks we got from tennis, I started playing football with my friends. I was only five years old.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.

Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.

When I see these kids 6 years old with a private coach, and at 7, they have a fitness coach, I'm like, 'Aw, come on.' At 12, it's for sure they will lose all the interest in tennis because they do not interact with other kids.

I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

My best tennis will be when I'm 24, 25.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.