“The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.” JobsSportsParentWaterConversationWeekend Author:Kal Penn
“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.” ThinkingChildrenImportantSeemsSportsParentSucceedHarderOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Dan Marino
“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.” YearsTwoKidsAgeGamesSportsParentTalkingBoysStupidYouthAdventureDaughterEightDrivingMy DaughterHockeyFourteenTrophiesIdioticGood RelationshipYouth SportsClose Family Author:Jeff Daniels
“My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.” WantShouldLooksWarSportsParentStudyFiguresFootballProfessionGuidanceZoneSubstitutesEnteringPaganAssertionPrescriptionsRemakesWar ZonesBrash Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.” ThinkingWantNeedsChildrenAbleYoungSportsParentEnvironmentSafeFacilityAffordableYoung ChildrenSafe Environment Author:Hope Powell
“Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.” IfsYearsKidsOpportunityGamesSportsParentChallengesTeamHugeDadMy DadCoachesBeing The BestPitchingSoftball Author:Jennie Finch
“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.” IfsLongFacesSportsParentWorryLong TimeBoxesLong Time Ago Author:Firoozeh Dumas
“If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.” IfsLooksChildrenStrongSportsParentSupportInfluenceAthleteSuperiorsIntroducingParentalParental Influence Author:Ivan Lendl
“As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.” PeopleWayLongTwoPastYoungFatherSportsParentPresidentProudHealthyCommittedActiveFitnessTeensCouncilChairmanWay To LivePhysical FitnessActive LifeProud Father Author:Lee Haney
“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.” NeedsGivingFeelsChildrenRealReasonUseYoungSportsParentEconomicTeachingClothesPressureOur ChildrenCrowdsContemporaryDesignerInstructionImpressDressingsYoung ChildrenSurplusPeer PressureDesigner Clothes Book:Miseducation: preschoolers at risk Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk
“I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.” WayFeelsStillsDifferentKidsFacesSportsParentChallengesShareLessonsLettersBaseballImpactIncrediblesFeel GoodDisability Author:Jim Abbott
“It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.” IfsWayWantArtTwoDreamFallSportsParentSidesLinesActingFineFollowingYour DreamsTwo ThingsFollow Your DreamsFall BackFine Lines Author:Kaley Cuoco
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.” ThinkingShouldHumansHeartPainSportsParentEmotionCompassionDyingYouthTearsOughtTreatsAffectionSelfishTalesCrueltyEaseHuman LifeEnjoymentAshamedContractsPermitSolitaryDistressWoeInsectsAmusementWrapsWeepingIndulgenceOrphanCottagesWanton Author:Hugh Blair
“To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.” KnowsWorldWellsPersonsImportantSportsParentPerspectiveBlessedAthleteWell Rounded Author:Venus Williams
“Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'” SportsParentPlansCollegeClintonBe GoodBillionsAffordable Author:Jimmy Fallon
“My parents are hard workers and they showed me what it means to work hard. I would give a lot of the credit to my parents for where I'm at and who I am. They both worked multiple jobs to make sure me and my siblings were able to play sports and have a home. I'll never forget how hard they worked and that always motivates me.” GivingMeanHardPlayHomeAbleJobsSportsParentForgetHard WorkWorkersCreditWho I AmNever ForgetMultipleSiblingMy SiblingsHard WorkerMultiple Jobs Author:Clay Guida
“When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.” PeopleMadeSportsParentSacrificeGymnastics Author:Jonathan Horton
“Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be involved. They don't need to be involved in a military type of setting, they just need to get out and play and enjoy themselves and find it themselves.” IfsNeedsChildrenStillsPlayCertainSportsParentEnjoyMilitaryTypeInvolvedExcellenceSettingSettingsAthletic Author:Allyson Felix
“Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.” WarSportsParentPlayerTeamModernSoldierCrowdsPower Politics Author:Dan Wakefield
“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.” DifferentKidsAgeOrderCultureSportsParentWaterHalfActivityUnderstoodImportanceFortunateExposingSkisSkiingDifferent Cultures Author:Benoit Lecomte