“I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.” IfsReadingSportsGrewGrew UpNewspapersChecksSectionsWrestler Author:Michael Pena
“I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.” SportsFootballGrewGrew UpMy FriendsActiveShootingThrowingPlaying Sports Author:Taylor Lautner
“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
“God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.” KidsSportsTvsGrewGrew UpGladNewspapers Author:Michael Wilbon
“I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.” StillsWholeSportsGrewGrew UpMouthsEdgesWhole LifeRoughLots Of Money Author:Justin Bieber
“I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.” GamesSportsGrewGrew UpNbaJamMadden Author:Chris Paul
“Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.” BelieveImportantYoungSportsAbilityGrewGrew UpYoung WomenPhysical Ability Book:Women and Sports: 2 Source: Women and Sports: 2
“I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.” IfsWorldEnoughPlaySportsGrewGrew UpGolfGood EnoughTravel The WorldPlaying Golf Author:Taylor Cole
“I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.” PeopleKindGamesSportsAttitudeWatchesGrowing UpGrowingFootballBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherObservingTeammateMy AttitudeFootball GameWatching Sports Author:Eli Manning
“Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.” Has BeensJoyGuySportsWatchesPlayerTeamGrewGrew UpStructureObviousSports TeamTeam PlayerBeside You Author:James Preston Rogers
“When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.” SchoolSportsSidesGrewGrew UpFortunate Author:Joe Armstrong
“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.” CharacterJobsGuyActorsSportsFansGrewGrew UpBaseballStrikesReliefGolfersPitcherParticipantsAnalogiesCharacter ActorsAvid Author:Clint Howard
“My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.” WantChildrenSaidMotherFatherNamesSportsEnjoyDangerousCarGrewInvolvedOne DayGrew UpDriversRacingSoloCompetingRacing DriverDangerous Sports Author:Liz Halliday
“I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.” KidsSportsBrotherGrewDadGrew UpMy FamilyMy DadMy BrotherHockeyAthleticScholarshipYounger BrotherAthletic Scholarships Author:Trevor McNevan
“I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.” GuySportsCommunityDarkActingGrewNormalGrew UpTheater Author:Willem Dafoe
“I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.” WorldI CanBodyBigsSportsIdentityGrewExerciseGrew UpEverydayBlockPlaying Sports Author:Erin Heatherton
“Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.” LittlesPlayGamesFeltEasyBitsSportsAbilityGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpBaseballGenesGiftedCousin Author:Dellin Betances
“Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.” SportsCitiesFansGrewBasketballGrew UpStandingObsessedTexasNow And ThenGlancesKansasBarbecueKansas CitySports Fan Author:Calvin Trillin