“I declare the Games of the 28th Olympiad closed and, in accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now at Beijing to celebrate with us there the Games of the 29th Olympiad.”
Jacques Rogge
“This puts us on the youth basketball map. There's all-star games, but this is the all-star game. It's the one everybody knows. There's lots of All-America teams, but when you say McDonald's All American, that's special. That game and those kids, to be playing here in San Diego, we're the basketball capital of the world for three or four days.”
Wade Vickery
“Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.”
Mark Twain
“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.”
Pierre de Coubertin
“I don't age slow, I just lag at life.”
Aaron Conn
“Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming”
Benjamin Franklin
“Last year, a lot of the games we loss were due to our youth. We've worked on the mental aspects of the game. A lot of the mistakes and inability to come through with the big hit when we needed had to with maturity.”
Ann Molski
