Top 1200 Young Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other. At the bottom, it said, 'No athletes, because they're arrogant.'

When athletes disrespect the flag and say things about their country that's not prideful, it really hurts me because of the situation that I've had to see my family go through.

Music spoke to me when I was young in such an intimate, empowering, magical way, and I think that music is already doing that for young queer kids.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

I have a really big heart for young women - having been one - when there aren't a lot of good examples for young women.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

All that young people have to look up to are older role models, and I think it's important to have people like myself show that it's OK to be who you are when you're young.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

Basically, if you're a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

Professional athletes have an enormous opportunity to be a source of inspiration for the younger generation, lead by example, and prove to them that as long as you stand up for what you believe in, everything is possible.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

Being young is hard. Being young and queer is even harder, regardless of how accepting your parents or community are.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

We need to rethink a system that has targeted young people, particularly young people of color, for nonviolent crimes.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.

I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.

More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

I didn't have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.

Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

I think it's perfectly fine and interesting to have someone get married at a young age and have kids at a young age.