Quotes About Youth

We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York.

No, I ain't a star - I'm just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream.

The only thing I would tell my younger self is, 'Don't pay a lot of money for head shots.' There's always some dude in Brooklyn that's like, 'Dude, this is gonna get you the job.' And he convinces you you've got to pay $700. You don't! Your head shot doesn't matter!

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

I used to wear my brothers' hand-me-downs, which were all too big on me.

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

When I was a kid I used to look at Wes Brown. I loved him as a player.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

I played team handball when I was a child. It is a very brutal sport.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

Of course, when I was younger I always wanted to have the newest Air Force 1s but my budget wasn't too good back then! I always stuck with the white or black AF1s.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

Coming from Karolbagh, I have been a movie buff all my life.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience.