Competitive Youth Quotes

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.

I stopped amateur skating competitively when I was 15.

What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.