Charles Woodson Quotes

My two years at Juve were fantastic. I was just a lad when I arrived, and I was a real footballer when I left.

I was young at Inter and did things I wouldn't do again.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm totally growing up.

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

It took me a long time to grow up.

The first years in office are necessarily important in the life of a young man.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

When you're young, influences count.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Sometimes in the difficult moments in you life you learn more, you grow up more.