Quotes About Youth

You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.

I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

I should have conceived the idea for 'The Mighty Walzer' earlier. A boy who dreamed of winning fame, fortune, and the adoration of beautiful women as a table-tennis player - shame on me for taking so long to see the mock-heroic possibilities in that.

Because I was a bit smaller than the other kids, my dad knew that winning the ball in the air wasn't going to be easy for me.

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it.

Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. It's a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

I grew up in the Philippines and I moved to the U.S. - to Texas - when I was a teenager.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.