Male Development Quotes

I want to see myself in a situation where guys want to grow, guys want to get better.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

I feel like I've woken up with suddenly more facial hair and a deeper voice.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

Boys should learn that which they will use when men.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

I couldn't grow, like, any kind of facial hair at 17.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

I'm growing into my manhood body.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter