Quotes About Youth

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That's a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.

I think every child in my town wants to be a football player.

It wasn't like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people - they knew that that's what they wanted to do when they were young.

When I was 15, I used to pick the school football team.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I played in the school football team, as a striker, and in year 7 and 8 I was one of the leading goalscorers.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.

As a footballer, I know I am a role model for a lot of African kids, and I want to make a direct impact on their lives.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.

From a football perspective, putting young footballers into art, or singing - you're doing something that's not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

I grew up with a lot of footballers.

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

I have to share my story. Not for me, but for the people who might go through the same thing and for juveniles who have gotten in trouble.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat.

I had those full-feathered bangs that started all the way at the back of your head. My forehead isn't very big; I should have never had those bangs!