Young Guy Quotes

Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

If you’re winning bike races ahead of guys who’re older than you then they’re going to get upset. When some young guy appears from nowhere, some people who are slower assume they ride dangerously.

I feel very blessed and lucky to have the opportunity to get out there and play. That’s all you can ask for as a young guy trying to make it in this league.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people’s lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

I think if you ask any young guy if they would want a career like Gary Payton, they would tell you yes.

I think it was tough being a young guy, especially in L.A. All the people looking at you and we had a big responsibility over there.

I’ve always believed if a young guy has a chance to play, why would you explain where his weakness is? The only reason would be to help the other team, or to help a gambler.

For being a young guy, I’m articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I’ve been able to do that since I was young. I don’t think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band – his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side – I told him, ‘If you lose me, you’re going to lose a good thing.’ And I went home and put that poem to music.

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He’s a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.

Most people I know think that I’m crazy – but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn’t think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star – a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.

I should stay consistent as a young guy. That makes a big difference being consistent every game. That increases the minutes and the role.

I was a 19 year old kid; I was 170 lbs soaking wet. I didn’t have an identity. I didn’t have a look. I didn’t have the proper gear. I was just a young guy trying to be a wrestler. So, to be honest, WWE didn’t even give me a second look.

You can get a young guy and he comes in and he’s athletic, he can hit and he can run, but if they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re a step behind.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There’s the next young guy coming up that’s always better than you. So, for me, it’s just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

It’s not so easy to go to a club like Chelsea as a young guy.

It’s always great for a young guy to have those examples, even though you may not follow ’em right away, it’s great to have those guys in the locker room that you could look up to and see the right way to go about your business.

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn’t believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I’m a professional student of music.

I’ve been in the songwriting circuit as well. I’ve been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and they’re writing songs for a young girl or a young guy that are coming up, and they’re kind of nuts.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What’s a soul? What’s it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who’s always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that’s out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too.

Guys are going to be physical, especially with me being the young guy. That tends to happen a lot. It’s just guys trying to be stronger and bigger than me, so they’re just trying to be more physical.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

As a young guy, you don’t like listening to adults and older people. You think they’re just old and don’t know what they’re talking about.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I’d be a massive movie star. But there’s a longevity to what I do. It’s more reliable. Someone isn’t deciding that I’m the next big thing.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called ‘Boogie Express,’ and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

I always wanted to be that funny young guy who people were like, ‘This is the next Belushi or Farley.’

It always comes down to being accountable to your teammates and so many times you get caught up in everything else going on. And I remember as a young guy, you always worry about, ‘Well, who’s getting the reps,’ and this, that and the other, and it takes you and distracts you away from just doing your job.

Being a young guy coming from high school, you hear about voting, but you don’t know how to do it or where you go because it’s all new to you.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I was always the young guy. And when you’re successful when you’re young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y’know.