But then he grew up, knuckled down, kept his weight in check and became a model professional deserving of admiration.
Newcastle were penned back in their own half for long periods, although as the clocked ticked down they grew in confidence and the home fans became a little agitated.
Then she lavished her affection on me for a while, until she grew distracted and drifted off down the hall to her study.
Mr Kerr, who was an inaugural member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and has written several books on judo and its techniques, insisted he had no plans to slow down as he grew older.
The home side's frustrations grew when referee Mike Dean turned down two penalty appeals inside five minutes.
We think that our vote and our support is now sufficient that it's time the Church of England grew up and decided to sit down and talk with us about the issues that we're getting across to our supporters.
Microprocessor-based computers grew up into teenage thugs and gunned down the likes of Apollo Computer, Wang and Digital Equipment.
Meantime, GDP grew only 1.7%, down from 2% in the first quarter.
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In Garissa, frustration grew in the long queues as the heat beat down, our correspondent reports.
There are children who live literally down the street from me, who grew up alongside me, who I didn't even know who were affected by the tragedy.
Although the overall industry was down eight percent across the region, Lenovo grew its PC shipments by 27 percent year-over-year, a stunning result.
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Incomes grew rapidly and at roughly the same rate up and down the income ladder, roughly doubling in inflation-adjusted terms between the late 1940s and early 1970s.
Gold looks down whimsically at 442 Green Street, where he grew up, only a corner kick from the Boleyn Ground.
Industrial output grew 15.7% in the year to October, down from 23% in February, and inflation slowed to 4.3% - although retail sales are still booming.
The results have been encouraging: efficiency crept up in 1998 and margins grew in several divisions, although income from continuing sales was down to 1.19 billion guilders from 2.71 guilders in 1997.
During the second fiscal quarter, Lenovo's worldwide PC shipments grew 10.3 percent, in a difficult market that was down eight percent year-over-year, the 14th quarter in a row that the company has grown faster than the PC industry as a whole.
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In a PC market that was down ten percent year-over-year, the Company grew its PC shipments across the region by an impressive five percent.
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Revenue and earnings for consumer and merchant banking in the EMEA region were flat to down in the first half of this year, while Asia grew.
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The 100 Pipers brand was down 7% in Thailand, while Chivas and Ballantine's grew rapidly in Vietnam.
Nevertheless, he soon grew fond of the building, if only because he was able to tear down several room dividers.
Industrial production grew by only 9.2% in the year to July, well down on the 14% rate a year ago.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year, down from the 0.5% growth rate recorded between January and March.
However, after man settled down to farming around 12, 000 years ago, the population grew, and soon lots of people depended on a small range of crops in a limited area.
Around that time, his wife-to-be Sandy, a Japanese-American friend of the family who grew up in a neighboring town, told him she wouldn't move down from San Francisco to be with him unless they got married, and he wouldn't get married unless he had a job.
For instance, retail sales grew 12.6% year-on-year (YoY) in March down from the 15% recorded in the fourth quarter on last year.
For the first eight months of 1997, our exports grew by 23% at a time when the exports of other Tigers are going down.
Czech industrial production grew by 7.4% in the year to June, but that was down from a stonking 12.6% in the year to May.
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The first 13 parliaments passed more than 3, 200 bills, but the legislative output slowed down in the 1990s as India's politics fragmented and political instability grew.
On Thursday, the Commerce Department affirmed its estimate from last month that the economy grew at an abysmal 0.6% in the fourth quarter of 2007, down from 4.9% growth in the third quarter.
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