Youth
Stock, son of major league baseball pitcher Wes Stock, attended Stadium High School, graduating in 1978. While in high school, he played baseball. However, he also played with future Sounders team mate Mark Peterson on the Norpoint Royals youth club. UCLA offered Stock an athletic scholarship, but he elected to sign a professional soccer contract instead.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“Call the bald man, “Boy;” make the sage thy toy;
Greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
““I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There’s youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I’d take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get ‘em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among ‘em as nothing should equal it!””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)