Top 66 Lad Quotes

I’m just a normal lad.

I know I’m 25 now, but there’s still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

I was quite small as a lad compared to everyone else so I didn’t stand a chance at Southampton. They told me one day that they weren’t interested so I moved on. I just went away and enjoyed my football.

Intrinsically, I’m the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

I’m a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that’s what I’m like, but it’s great for me ‘cos they’re always the most interesting characters.

I had my first panic attack at 52 years of age. I’m glad it came when it did. If I’d had one as a young lad I don’t think I’d have been able to have a career.

I wouldn’t say I’m the chunky lad who just goes barge, barge, barge, but being strong is an advantage.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I’m a grounded lad, and I just look forward to see what’s going to happen in the future.

Back when I was a young lad, I’m not condoning this, but there wasn’t as much traffic on the roads. My dad used to drive a Hillman Avenger, and he would take me on the road driving that.

It’s a great thing because I’ve said to my lad, ‘What do you want to do today – football, shopping, playing a game?’ and he says, ‘I want to bake with you, Dad.’ And he loves it, baking with me.

By nature, I was a little guy with big legs – a stocky lad.

Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, ‘Look at me. I’m a heavy metal guy. I’m Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.’

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people’s riches or success.

I am a bit of a lad but don’t tell: it will ruin my image!

I was an 18-year-old lad playing in a Scottish League Cup final at Hampden in front of 60,000 against Celtic. That’s an experience I will never forget.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I remember going for a drink of water, and one old bloke shouts, ‘Hey you, young lad! Your grandad is under that grass!’ I just turned around to him, gave him the thumbs up and said: ‘Nae problem!’

People have been saying life will change for us now but me? No chance. I may be a World Cup winner but I will always be the lad who played cricket with his friends and cousins in the park on Stoney Lane in south Birmingham using an old milk crate for stumps.

I like to think I won’t change as a person, even if I go on to win 20 world titles. I will still be just a working-class lad from the Potteries, the same daft old me.

I haven’t changed, I’m still the same lad who lives at home with my mam, brother and sister.

They’re cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Within the media, the way that women are portrayed – especially young women – sometimes there is a lot of sexual objectification and, I would say, ‘lad culture.’ These are all things that connect with domestic abuse.

I was quite a fat lad.

My whole life, I’ve been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad’s mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

Elton John is an absolute lad. He’s a hero.

People say maybe I could have got better performances out of myself or I could have a got few more fights out of myself if I looked after my body a little bit more but at the end of the day it was because I was jack the lad.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts – but we can’t get a word out of him.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It’s something I enjoy. I’m a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

I’m a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, ‘I’m going to scratch all that and become an actor,’ I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I’d have.

I’m just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt – when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt – it meant a lot.

As a young lad it’s been your dream to play football and you get injuries and you’ve got to respond well to them and work really hard, because it’s your dream to be on the pitch.

We did a film called ‘Kes,’ which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.

One of my biggest attributes, if you speak to my coaches from when I was a young lad, is that I’ve always believed in my own ability and been a confident young man.

I am just a lucky lad from Glasgow with a bonus that I get paid for something I love.

I don’t know if my life is going to be easier because I’m out but, if it helps someone else, if it makes one young lad pick up the phone to ChildLine, then it will have been worth it.

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.

All I would say is it doesn’t matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he’s one of the top ones, a top lad.

The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

When you’re a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club… but you’re on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

I always think that your first test of loyalty as a young lad is your football team.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as ‘that bloke off the telly.’

When I’m 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, ‘Look, when I was a lad, ‘People’ magazine thought I was sexy!’

I’m a normal lad, and if that changes, my family and friends will kick me straight back down, so it definitely won’t be changing.

I like a drink and enjoy being Jack the Lad. I’ve had a few scraps and spent a night in a cell.

I love Strapping Young Lad. I’m incredibly proud of that band; I’m incredibly proud of everything we did.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

As a young lad you go on adrenalin. You run out, look at the crowd, run around at 100mph and you can do it.

You will always worry – a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.

I was, by the way – I’m an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I was right in the middle of a story and leading to a punch line and then I just heard ‘John John’ and I just looked around. I could see someone in the shadows walking forward and he said ‘John I can’t find me seat lad, d’ya know where me seat is?’ I looked at him and it was my uncle Dave.

Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.

Do I think I’m a national treasure? I don’t see why not? I don’t see why I shouldn’t be. I’m a good lad, really.

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them – watching ‘On the Waterfront,’ my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

I’ve always been the local lad, boy done well, kid next door.

I’m just a lad who likes playing football. I’m not bothered about anything else.

Being through the England set-up since I was a young lad, passing was the style of football I grew up with.

People have to recognise I’m a working-class lad. Forget what I’ve done and where I’ve been. I’m a working-class lad. I’ve come from nothing and I’ve not forgotten that.

You travel the world and you talk to people about Jos Buttler, and they rave about this lad. I don’t like massive comments, but he’d have to be up there with the three or four greatest white-ball players of all time. You’re talking Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni, Viv Richards.