Grown Men Quotes
Grown men at play, in power, and finding their voice
This collection of grown men quotes ranges from a young player earning a spot in pickup basketball games to broader thoughts on empowering athletes. See our Brotherhood quotes for related lines.
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic...
To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.
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In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings...
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
Brotherhood Quotes
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each...
By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will be more likely to adapt to a situation and seize the moment in a sporting contest.
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.
Don't get me wrong - it's amazing playing basketball. But being 19 years old, playing and interacting with grown men with families wasn't fun all the time, especially during a grueling 82-game season. That, mixed with Toronto's freezing winter climate,...
Emotion Quotes
When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Where can I find more quotes about personal experience and growth?
Other quotes take a critical view of grown men in positions of power behaving foolishly, using a well-known political moment as an example. Browse our Legacy quotes too.
