Quotes About Learning

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

It's always great for a young guy to have those examples, even though you may not follow 'em right away, it's great to have those guys in the locker room that you could look up to and see the right way to go about your business.

I just know as a rookie, a young guy, you see the game totally differently and it could take awhile for it to slow down the right way.

When I was the young guy on tour, I don't think I really grasped what it actually takes to be at this level.

Being a young guy coming from high school, you hear about voting, but you don't know how to do it or where you go because it's all new to you.

You can get a young guy and he comes in and he's athletic, he can hit and he can run, but if they don't know what they're doing, they're a step behind.

When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies with him, and he would explain the story and characters to me.

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.

As a young kid in the beginning, I myself did not know that there was women's cricket in India or that there is an Indian women's cricket team.

I made the team for the 2008 Olympics and you're playing the U.S.A. in the quarter-finals and it's like, this is awesome, this is a great feeling. We lose the game. And as a young kid like you don't understand really what that means, you just got your backside handed to you by all-time greats.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

Really young kids are into guitars.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?