Quotes About Youth

I wanted to be a gymnast when I was young - I used to do backflips and all those things in the street and at home - but my grandma said it was dangerous and made me stop.

I was a gymnast when I was younger but sadly didn't really keep it up with age.

My first dream as a young boy was to be a gymnast and my first memory of football is of watching Ajax win the European Cup in 1971. It was a time when a great philosophy was being developed at Ajax, making rounded players who were there as a complete team rather than as 11 individuals.

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.

We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.

At 19, you're not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn't. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

It's hard for me to get to grips with how much players have changed since I retired. There are too many annoying habits; the kids are getting rich earlier and earlier, which brings a weird sense of entitlement.

Bad habits can easily be formed when you're younger.

I couldn't grow, like, any kind of facial hair at 17.

I haven't seen my natural hair color in 20 years.

I've had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a hairdresser.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

I still feel 18, and I probably act that way half the time.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.