Youth Quotes (5700 Quotes)


    You have a lot of young guys that are being thrust into a position where they have a lot of money and a lot of attention and they don't realize this is a blessing, a big time opportunity, that is not given to many. It can't be taken for granted and you can't disrespect the game, you can't disrespect your teammates or the organization.




    A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.



    We are a young team. We start two freshmen and Brooke (Smith) and I are only in our second year of playing really. We're used to playing behind seniors. We do over think things at time and make mistakes that people with more experience wouldn't make.

    Look, it's a long season and we had a young team and guys get tired at times. But we've played well lately. Our guys aren't settling. Our goal is to win the national championship.

    I knew we had something when I let people read the script. We had people who were sports fans and not sports fans. We had men. We had women. We had young. We had old. We had people of different races and of different sexual orientations and everyone cried. Not just one or two -- everyone. These are people who didn't know anything about Marshall, who didn't know anything about football. They were just so swept up in the story that they just cried.

    I think those injuries actually brought us closer. It made us understand that we're one play from having a new guy line up on the field with us. All the young guys, they are like sponges. They listen to everything that we have to offer and all the advice we have. Learning the scheme is most important, and they have done that.

    It is the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth. I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays and the soft, tender, gentle memories that come with them, the dear images from the whole of my long, happy lifeand over all the Divine Truth, softening, reconciling, forgiving My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.


    It was great to see a young guy like Brandon Phillips have the kind of night that he did. He's a very talented baseball player. He's got all the abilities. We'll just have to see if, at the major league level, he can be consistent.

    We had a real young team and the young guys made a lot of progress. I don't anybody expected us to be a pennant winner, but I think we got better as an organization this year.


    The abortion clinics will tell you that 95 percent of young people who choose to have a procedure come with parents or supportive adults. We've got people talking in kitchens, probably in bedrooms and in living rooms all around the state.

    It's a great story. He has come in this year and done a marvelous job. He is one of 18 children. He has had to battle for his place his whole life. He appreciates everything. He works hard for everything. He doesn't expect anything to be given to him, and I can't say enough about the young guy. Do we miss Ken Hamlin Certainly we do. But Marquand Manuel has been better than good this season.

    Jon is young, but he has the qualities that you look for in a leader, ... He has the respect of everyone in the organization, the business department, the baseball people, the veteran scouts. He's going to be a great leader.


    We came out too tentative. I knew that because our guys weren't doing their assignments, they weren't getting to their spots. We're real young, and we weren't disciplined. But Kalaheo's a real good team.




    I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

    Obviously it's a tragedy. Oscar helped a lot of young guys become better pitchers and better baseball players. He has a wonderful family, and Oscar will be missed.

    Vince Young is definitely the heartbeat of that team. You've definitely got to contain him and you've almost got to make them one-dimensional and make them throw the ball on every down.



    When you have a kid of that caliber, the youth look up to him and watch him. He's such a good kid in the classroom, on the street ... wherever he goes.


    It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.


    It's kind of weird because it's only my eighth year in the league. I'm only 29, yet I'm the old man on the team. We've got 19-year-old guys running around out here. I think 29 is in the prime of your career. I don't think I'm over the hill by any means. But at the same time, the experiences that I've had in my career, the experiences that Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis have had, and even Mark Blount , we try to get those through to the young guys and help them along.

    There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

    We are talking about people who prey on young children. There isn't any way we can be too strict on these sick people. There should be no ambiguity in our laws. I would even want to look at something as extreme as castration for these people.

    We're a young, inexperienced team and program. One of the things you have to guard against when things start going well is thinking offense first. We got up 10-2 and apparently thought it was going to be easy. We completely forgot what's gotten us here, and that's our defense.

    That's one of the reasons we're starting the league, ... One, to increase the popularity in gymnastics. Down the line, we want to put some organizations together for the inner city youth. There's so much talent that I saw in the inner city.


    The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.


    People have been searching for the fountain of youth ever since Ponce de Leon, and will probably continue to do so for decades and generations into the future, ... Our job at this hearing is not to kill that hope and desire to remain youthful and healthy as long as possible, but rather the role of the committee is to try and help protect American citizens, particularly the elderly, who are preyed upon by modern-day snake oil salesmen.



    You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

    I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

    We worked on molding a lot of young players to play together as a team and the only way to do that is to hit the field and get in as much playing time as we can.

    What we're asking him to do is difficult, ... A rookie middle linebacker calling the signals, there's nothing easy about that. His plate is full. But if anyone can handle it, of the young people I've seen in the last few years, he can.

    I'm not one for Knute Rockne speeches and so I'm not going to start now. I did tell the kids the other night that they are my favorite team not because of the success we've had on the court. But because of the kind of people they are. They are just a tremendous group of young men.

    We needed to get our guy back, ... The younger guys need him because he helps them a lot, critiques their play, and the young guys have been missing out on that. It's good to have him back.

    They're a very young, energetic team. They play with a lot of poise, a lot of enthusiasm. And it's something we have to be prepared for. And we will be. It'll be a good test for us. We respect our opponent very much, but we'll be fine.



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