Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before. ”

I don't want to be an invisible coach. I want to provide guidelines to solve problems, coming from the base I have, as I had to work a lot considering I did not play at Barca until I was 17. ”

At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine. ”

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick. ”

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. ”

As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D. ”

I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx. ”

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals. ”

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down. ”

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. ”