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It was just a big deal to play there because the Astrodome was a big deal.
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KELLY JONES I was a little afraid at first. I didn't have a lot of confidence when I first went out there. But i...
ERIC MAUPIN That was the best fastball I've ever thrown in my life. He swung and missed. I remember walking off ...
JOHNNY PODRES By the time that I grabbed my little boy and my dog and got down the stairs you could see the blinds...
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I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ...
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IAN GOLD I got my first guitar when I was 15. Danny was just a little bugger.
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I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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I was born to be funny.
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CHARLOTTE RAMPLING When it first happened, it was a big deal. When it happened again it was big, too, but I felt I play...
CHRISTI NARDOZZI It was much better than the one at Wrigley Field. My best one was still the first one at Shea Stadiu...
DAN WHELDON It wasn't as good a throw as the one I did at Shea Stadium; it was a little high, ... This was more ...
DAN WHELDON
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was ... TOMMY LASORDA
It was nice. But it's not Bernie's last game at Yankee Stadium. DEREK JETER My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a ...
PEDRO MARTINEZ This was about the CD. First time, you know. I was a little nervous at first, but once I got up ther...
BEN BROUSSARD I felt like I made a decent pitch, and he went down and got it. But it was a solo home run, so it wa...
JAKE WESTBROOK I had to step up big because it was my fault they got down there in the first place. I took it upon ...
JAMES SHANNON It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. It was going to (Alge) Crumpler,...
MICHAEL JENKINS The first inning was good. I walked a couple of guys and it kind of got in my head. I was thrown off...
MATT ERICKSON I lifted weights. But I never really even thought of it. I don't know if it was a real big deal at t...
JOE BLANDINO It was a big game. I was a little tense at first, but there was more pressure for us to play at the ...
ROSS HEBERT The one I fought the best was the last one at Yankee Stadium. After 15 rounds I was not tired and fe...
KEN NORTON I was a little nervous at first, but once I got rolling, it was good.
DEB REMMERDE Oh yeah, that was on my mind. I was thinking how it would have been if I were playing for the Red So...
BERNIE WILLIAMS
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the inte... STEVE CASE At first, it was a little tough. Then I got used it.
JARVIS JONES After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I go...
DREW POMERANZ First time I went on the ice and saw that crowd, I was a little nervous, but after a couple of shift...
BEN KINNE I just picked up the phone. Actually, it was not that easy. I called Yankee Stadium, and they gave m...
TED TAYLOR London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic unifo...
ELOISE WELLINGS
At first I was, 'Yessir, Mr. Braddock.' I was in awe, BLAKE SHELTON
I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at ... SEAN COMBS I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years ...
DAVID LABRAVA But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
Swimming was a big deal for us. It was sort of a bonding thing for my dad and I. RON REAGAN It was little bit too late to come back in the second set. I was missing a lot on baseline, my serve...
MARAT SAFIN I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA I've never hit a walk-off homer ever, anywhere, even in Little League, in my life. And to hit one he...
BUBBA CROSBY I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy,...
BILLY AL BENGSTON
Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he... CAROL LEE
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had ... WILLIE NELSON
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like... ADAM DEVINE 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going ...
MACKENZIE DAVIS
It was just a big deal to play there because the Astrodome was a big deal. BILLIE JEAN KING
When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was ... REGGIE JACKSON
The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort o... SHAWN ASHMORE
It was really no big deal then, and still isn't to me. I think the whole problem with it is they mad... JOHN HUSTON I remember ... how crazy this place was. I kind of got my first taste. We went downtown and saw ever...
JAY HENRY The Yankee Girl was one of the first big, rich mines.
BOB RISCH At first, I slid because he was up there and he jumped at me. I thought I still slid late enough to ...
BRANDON INGE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they ...
ISAAC BROCK All of those stories about my interview-fear date from the beginning of the band. At the time of our...
BETH GIBBONS I remember my first time coming to New York City. It was 1986, and I was on a U.S. tour with a stop ...
JAN VOGLER I was surprised by the atmosphere in the stadium in Chicago. The fans were loud. Yankee Stadium can ...
BRONSON ARROYO
Well, directing myself meant there was one less star I had to deal with! Really, it was great. It wa... BILL PAXTON
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha... HEIDI KLUM I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. T...
SUSAN HAYWARD I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The ...
ALEXANDRE PATO
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got ... LEV GROSSMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was a little afraid at first. I didn't have a lot of confidence when I first went out there. But i...
ERIC MAUPIN That was the best fastball I've ever thrown in my life. He swung and missed. I remember walking off ...
JOHNNY PODRES By the time that I grabbed my little boy and my dog and got down the stairs you could see the blinds...
MANDIE SARGENT
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years ... DOLLY PARTON
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ... ALLYSON FELIX I think tonight was more my game. I felt like I skated a lot more and hit a little more. Last night ...
DANIEL PAILLE I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late - when I was 21 or 22 wa...
TYCHO When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that wa...
JACK REYNOR It was a very big deal. There was a parade, with horses and floats.
HARVEY BAILEY I felt like it was a big enough moment in the game where we needed to get something going. Right whe...
JEFF FRANCOEUR
Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get i... DEREK JETER I thought everyone was doing a good job. It all broke loose. This is my first time at Daytona, and I...
BRIAN VICKERS At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
TAMSIN EGERTON I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my fac...
CATHY FREEMAN When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my ...
RYAN LEE When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my ...
LEE RYAN I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at...
LISA ADLER
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re... NOAH BAUMBACH I'd done it before. I was in and out. It was no big deal.
WENDY HARRIS
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the ti... JIM HENSON I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my moth...
AGNES MACPHAIL
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... CONNOR FRANTA When I first came in the stadium I felt like I was home, ... I had these butterfly feelings. But the...
DENNIS KING I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ I just threw my arm up and deflected the ball. It wasn't really a play that I was trying to make. It...
IAN GOLD I got my first guitar when I was 15. Danny was just a little bugger.
GEORGE BAXTER It was a big relief to get my first hit. I was there to play defense, but I wanted to be in a positi...
JEFF FIORENTINO It was a tough mistake. But luckily it was on one of steepest part of course, so I didn't lose momen...
BENJAMIN RAICH
Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ... AUGUST WILSON It was a very workmanlike win for the guys. It's always a tough drive over there. And it was the fir...
MARC WALTERS
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company... STEVE AOKI I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON
I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this sil... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA When I first got here, I was in awe of him, and my buddies back in Toronto couldn't believe I was hi...
KIRK MALTBY I was excited and nervous at the same time. I changed my mind a couple of time before I finally got ...
LAURA ERICKSON My mom was into Kwanzaa when I was growing up. We used to come to the SHAPE Center all the time. Kwa...
ANGELA LINDSEY
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