Bruno Sammartino Quotes

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.