Life Readiness Quotes

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

Boys should learn that which they will use when men.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

My style is part of my lifestyle and part of my preparation to get ready to play in the game. It's my preparation for life, I should say.

We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.