Quotes About Youth

I'm competitive in everything I do. And that started young. Heck, I started racing bicycles when I was 3.

I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

The pulse of the youth is racing towards liberalization. And I'm truly loving it.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

I grew up with a brother racing dirt bikes and me riding my pony around, trying to see what the boys were up to.

I used to build ramps in my back garden. It was more about having a bit of fun than racing.

You had to be, I want to say 12 or 13 to drag race, but I was drag racing probably like at 8, and then it was overlapping. I was starting to rap, but I was still drag racing around 9 or 10, until I finally was like, 'You know, I don't want to do this no more. I just want to rap.'

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.

I grew up during a time of peace, and my friends weren't joining the military - it wasn't something on my radar. But if you asked me whether I could go back and do it all over again now, and it meant I wouldn't go into filmmaking, there's a part of me that would have loved to try to be a Navy SEAL.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a nerd, I wasn't a jock. I wasn't a bad kid. I just flew under the radar with my homies.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.