I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
