Pele Quotes

So young and so wrong.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

When you're young, you're stupid.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

When you're young, you're cocky.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

I've blundered my way through life.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

We all do stupid things.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.