“When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!” ShouldSaidSportsLosesWeightFatsManagersCampsBootsBoot Camp Author:Li Na
“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.” KidsGrowsSportsGrowing UpTheatreCamps Author:Aaron Tveit
“All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.” IfsThinkingLongStoriesWould BeLostSportsHoursMemoriesMagicSeaRiversFishesBoatEveningCharmLakesFishingCampsBrooksCottagesInnsAnglers Book:I Go A-fishing Source: I Go A-fishing
“I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.” MenMeanNightSportsChallengesMorningStruggleWeekHonestPercentSittingCourtMeetingsJailCampsLockedWorkoutRookiesMean Man Author:Andrew Bogut
“We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.” WholeMightGuySportsTalkingMonthsSixTrainingSeasonsOver YouCampsLaughedSix MonthsBubbaTraining Camp Author:Bubba Smith
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.” YearsSchoolSportsYouthCollegeCoupleHigh SchoolRanCampsYouth SportsDaycare Author:Derek Theler