Quotes of: Young-athletes Keyword

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

D. W. Griffith

Scar: Now you wait here. Your father has a *marvelous* surprise for you. Young Simba: Oooh. What is it? Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't *be* a surprise, now would it? Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still *act* surprised. Scar: Ho ho ho. You are s...

The Lion King

Young Allie: Why didn't you write me? Why? It wasn't over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it's too late. Young Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year. Young Allie: You wrote me? Young Noah: Yes... it wasn't o...

The Notebook

Young Max: From here on, we establish the shared funds of the gang. They belong to all of us together, and to none of us alone. And we solemnly swear to put in 50 per cent of everything we make. Agreed? Young Noodles, Young Cockeye, Young Patsy, D...

Once Upon a Time in America

Praise the young and they will blossom.

Irish

I had to work from a young age.

Giancarlo Esposito

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Bill Walton

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.

The Austere Academy

I could be a trophy hubby. I have the body of an elite athlete…that of a pro bowler.

Xazaqazax

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Steve Carlton

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

Nikki Sixx

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Oscar Pistorius

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

Paula Radcliffe

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

Shannon Miller

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Keyshawn Johnson

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Lindsay Davenport

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

Mike Epps

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

Maurice Greene