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“My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.”

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Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“I just wanted to be like my dad, Jesus. He was a good shortstop.”

Wanted Jesus Dad My Dad Shortstops

Author:Johan Santana

“My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.”

Years Faces Father Difficult Example Dad My Dad Painful Preacher Wipe

Author:William P. Young

“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.”

“We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.”

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Author:Nellie Fox

“Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.”

Firsts Asks Youth Son Dad My Dad Financial Signing Bonus Advisors Cheques Financial Advisor

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'”

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Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.”

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Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.”

World Made Said Body Wanted Acting Dad My Dad Legacy Remembered

Author:Charlton Heston

“All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.”

Enough Dad Band Members My Dad Band Members

Author:Hunter Hayes

“My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.”

Matter Heard Mom Dad No Matter What My Dad Radio My Mom Djs

Author:Chad Channing

“My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.”

People Parent Dad Theater My Dad Theatrical

Author:Kate Fleetwood

“I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.”

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Author:Ali Krieger

“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.”

Used Girl Sports Dad My Dad Makeup Shallow Armor

Book:All the Rage

Source: All the Rage

“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.”

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Author:Homaro Cantu

“When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys...' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.”

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Author:Scott Wood

“I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.”

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Book:Need

Source: Need

“I've got a record in Florida. I'm proud of my dad, and I'm certainly proud of my brother. In Florida, they called me Jeb, because I earned it.”

Records Brother Proud Dad My Dad My Brother Florida

Author:Marco Rubio

“It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.”

People Men Giving Firsts Kind Important Book Play Shows Pleasure Produce Dad Give Me Theater My Dad Producers Solo Pioneers Shakespeare Play

Author:John Lithgow

“From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.”

Born Rooms Watches Arms Grew Dad Grew Up Dancing My Dad Sibling Living Room My Siblings

Author:Julianne Hough

“My dad said, "As long as you're happy." I used to think it was kind of a very simple idea or philosophy because he wasn't religious. But you've got to try and be happy. And if you're not happy, you can't help anyone else. So obviously, some crazy people could go to places, but I just think you need to be content within yourself, so that's the thing.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."”

Kids Order Identity Mom Dad Gains My Dad My Mom

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.”

Kind Littles Father Secret Fiction Grew Dad Grew Up Daughter Science Fiction My Dad Bonding Bonding Time

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.”

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Author:Eric Hutchinson

“My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.”

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Author:Billy Sherwood

“I am involved with so many charitable organizations. Lung Cancer because of my dad, Breast Cancer because as a woman and mother of two daughters I have to be, Lupus for my sister, Crohn's disease for a dear friend, as well as Oceana and The Plastic Pollution Coalition because we have to be responsible to save the planet!”

“I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.”

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Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.”

Hard Felt Difficult Struggle Dad My Dad Seeking Revenge Difficult Life

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“My dad wasn't someone who was a great disciplinarian, we had a fun relationship, but he gave me really constructive advice in my life, which I still carry today and I do pass on to other people. So if I can have the same relationship with my son as I had with my dad, then I think he'll be very happy and I'll be very happy.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.”

Want Kids Jobs Values Parent Dad Decided Who You Are My Dad Active Spares

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.”

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Author:Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

“My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.”

Young Dad Catholic My Dad Buddhist Begging Saying No

Author:Sean Astin

“My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.”

“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.”

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Author:Meagan Good

“I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I have to die at fifty? My Dad ate all the junk food, he wouldn't exercise - how can you tell your Dad anything? We know about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape - it's ridiculous!”

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Author:Jack LaLanne

“I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.”

Dies Dad My Dad Ass Noses Bites Kicking

Author:Steve Irwin

“I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun.”

Two Guy Courses Father Fun Born Dad Golf My Dad Golf Course Two Guys

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I had a bag of Fritos, they were Texas grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of summer, when we used to fire up the barbeque and throw down some Fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on. Better flip that Frito, dad, you know how I like it.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad - there's a lot of stuff you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“When you were a kid, it [work in IBM] seemed like an awesome job. I'd get to go to work and have a briefcase. I loved how Dad wore a tie and got a car. I didn't know if all those things came together. I'd see my dad go off to work and we'd wait for him to come home, and we'd all be excited to see him.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.”

Years Looks Play Practice Gone Pieces Teaching Dad Paper Down And Guitar My Dad Maps Notebook Cords

Author:Jason Aldean

“My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.”

Play Wanted Dad My Dad

Author:Jason Aldean

“I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.”

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Author:Jason Aldean

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