Wayne Rooney Quotes

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I was 10 years old when I first heard Ginuwine. I remember being at a friend's house, and the music video came on. I was just like, 'What is that?' I was just kind of drawn from there.

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

The prison officials practiced such excessive cruelty that they were jeopardizing the entire system

My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.

My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.

My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

When we were children we played on the street - on tarmac and things like that.

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

As a kid, we used to play wearing a Liverpool shirt in the streets.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.