#young kid

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what. ↗

— Teena Marie

#down #driven #going #guitar #hall

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#brother #got #happen #i #kid

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#care #case #conscious #cool #credibility

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#always #far #greater #i #jazz

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#baseball players #become #big #big leagues #go

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#arts #clear #difficult #go #heat

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? ↗

— Studs Terkel

#black #black or white #books #first #first time

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration