Jack Wilshere Quotes

We should not, however, proceed with the adventure simply because we are wound up and cannot stop.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down.

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I'm more focused.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.