Quotes About Youth

When I was 16 years old, I thought that backflips were like the coolest thing. So I spent like months and months of my life like, literally flipping onto my head.

I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.

I think when I came into the league, I had to find something that would keep me around. I knew I wasn't going to get the ball a lot, being the younger guy on my team. I knew I wasn't going to play a lot unless I made some sort of impact on the floor. I wasn't the best shot blocker, so I said, 'Let's be the best rebounder the league has ever seen.'

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.

At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

The scene in South Florida when we were growing up, it wasn't divided. It wasn't different scenes. If you played loud or crazy music, you were on the same show.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

I lived in Florida until I was 22.

I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida.

I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.

I wanted to fly when I was little.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.

When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.

I used to be a pretty decent athlete when I was young. I would like to really focus on getting back into shape.

It is very easy to get people focused on children.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I think it was Under-16 when I started really focusing on bowling and trying to work out how I was going to go about my bowling and that sort of thing.