Warren Moon Quotes

The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a big advocate for the work they do.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

If you introduce kids to fishing, they become good citizens.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.

Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.