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“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.”

Ifs Able Father Games Watches England Died Australia Cricket 1930s Father Died My Father Died

Author:Desmond Llewelyn

“When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?”

Years Guy Father Games Rights Willing Huge Amount Nfl Championship Worthless This Guy Championship Games

Author:Steve Sabol

“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

War Kids Mother Father Literature Games Taught Ten Lays Ancient Bridges Rome Eleven English Literature Pedestrians Ancient Rome War Games

Author:Bernie Taupin

“My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.”

Mother Father Games Too Much Honor Occasions

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.”

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Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.”

Giving Play Able Father Games Boys Prove Baseball Give Me My Boys Quentin

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.”

Feels Should Wells Heart Said Stills Dies Father Games One Day Lucky Seconds Hunting Hunters Good Day Heart Attack

Author:Alain Resnais

“Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.”

Father Games Heaven Gun Busy

Author:Ian Anderson

“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.”

Mind Stills Character Courses Father Games Results Player Walking Shots Balls Mark Golf Opponents Score Flaws Preparing Courtesy Abiding Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this.”

Should Kids Father Games Winning Team Proud Basketball Beats Be Proud Zoos

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.”

Way Should Believe Would Be Father Games Forever Team Childhood Paper Baseball Boxes Score Allowing Papers His Love Printed Incomplete Rendering

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.”

People Want Trying Stories Father Games Football Grew Grew Up Idols Telling Stories

Author:Cam Newton

“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.”

Children Wanted Father Games Generations Son Theater Boxing Sunday Weekend Only Child Kung Fu

Author:Milla Jovovich

“He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm living his dream.”

World Firsts Home Dream Bigs Running Remember Father Games Series Cried Home Run World Series First Home

Author:Jorge Posada

“The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.”

Thinking Lasts Father Games Son Eight Uniforms Last Time Father Son

Author:Ken Griffey, Jr.