Quotes About Growth

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.

I'm learning to stop being scared.

I really just like to see people being the best they can be.

There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

I don't think about tomorrow because I want to enjoy today and practice being the best me today.

To be fair, when you are really young, you don't think about the future too much. You just want to play with your friends. When you get older, you start to dream about being there, about being at a top team, so of course it's a dream to be at a team like Manchester United.

I was at Everton from the age seven. Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.

I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.

Once you get into a real good situation, where somebody really believes in you, that's what you can take off to a whole other level.

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.