When I was a youngster, I and people like us, who are educated and progressive-minded, did not take interest in politics. But then I realised that half of the parliament is being run by politicians with criminal records.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
If I am talking to a youngster, I coach him what I feel is best for him to bowl, how to hold the ball, how to bowl certain things, and how to bowl to certain batsmen, how to position himself. I never talk to them about the rules.
As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for too long, uneducated actors have ruled the roost in the acting world.
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it’s quite devastating. One minute you’re all happy families, then everything changes.
As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I’d score 40 points. I’d come home and say, ‘Look dad, I scored 40.’ He’d never have a smile on his face. He’d be like, ‘I saw that move you did. What if you’d hurt your knee?’
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that’s a disguise for being a writer.
As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money – it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I’d had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn’t have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
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