Beauden Barrett Quotes

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

I have played in so many games and have had so many incredible moments that selecting one or remembering all of them is impossible.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

When the tone needs to be set and the crowd need to be revved up, nothing is better than a big, shuddering tackle.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Remember the past - and await the future.

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

This moment will just be another story someday.