Carlos Tevez Quotes

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

Remember that before joining Arsenal, I was at Marseille where it was easy for me because I was with my family; I was born there and had played for them since I was nine. I came here on my own, and you grow up more quickly that way. It made a difference, because now I have become a man.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.