Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.
When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.
The first album, I'd had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn't know what I was talking about.
Poor little queen. She is at an age at which a girl can hardly be entrusted to choose a bonnet for herself, yet a task is laid upon her from which an archangel might shrink.
When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.
In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.
I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you're an idiot.
