Quotes About Youth

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

A lot of young guys, I'm just trying to show them the way, make sure they have successful careers and I'm having fun doing it.

Photoaging is the worst. It wreaks havoc.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Koeman may have been head coach at Feyenoord, but I never felt like he was my manager, as I was in the youth team. I don't even know if he knew I was there. I don't have anything to prove to him.

I want to be able to help out and give back to people and give them something nice to be able to train at and get a chance to get a head start on things. And just continue to push out my brother's story while I reach out to kids.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

I don't think kids should be heading real balls.

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.

We need to make the bullies aware of what they're doing, why it's wrong, and the effects it has on the kids who they are doing it to. You can see the light bulbs going off in these kids' heads when I say this. I try to put them in the situation of those being bullied. It just makes them aware.

I was headstrong when I was younger and maybe I've had too many jobs in my time.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

I was so young when I was competing that I wasn't as focused on my diet. I was a kid - I ate a lot, and I worked out a lot. But as I get older, I definitely want to be healthier.

A healthier state starts with healthier kids.

I used to be a Peckham boy, we used to have ghetto boys or maybe like Brixton. And sometimes we'd hear about the greasiest ones but we'd never have seen them before.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.