I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
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Related When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory se... AARON CIECHANOVER My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o... MICHAEL STRAHAN When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until... BILLY BUTLER I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and ag... ABBIE CORNISH For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi... SAM BRADFORD I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... PATRICK EWING I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w... DANICA PATRICK The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there ... ELLIE GOULDING But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w... DEV HYNES My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young t... AARON SORKIN It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the... CALVIN JOHNSON When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did act... RINGO STARR There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Pa... TANIT PHOENIX My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye... DAMON WAYANS, JR. My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my... JACK PRELUTSKY I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to... JOAN BAEZ I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the m... DANIEL JOHNSTON I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dea... NIKKI SIXX My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city whe... JAKE JOHNSON I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosb... LEON BRIDGES I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call th... ELLIOT PERLMAN I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best frie... PETER EISENMAN 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ... LARENZ TATE I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f... FERNANDO TORRES The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't ha... SCOTTIE PIPPEN I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used books... AL YANKOVIC I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5. BAILEE MADISON I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventur... DIANA RIGG I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever... JAMES MCGREEVEY I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts th... CATHY MORIARTY My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid... TOM HOOPER I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't ne... KHLOE KARDASHIAN President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I ... FOSTER FRIESS What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... PETE TOWNSHEND I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... JOHN C. REILLY A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums... BUTCH TRUCKS I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di... HOWIE MANDEL I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-... LINDSAY LOHAN It was like starting over. I had to prove myself again. It was an adjustment. I didn't know coach (M... JARRETT SPARKS When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so exc... CARLY CRAIG When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only s... MAYA ANGELOU I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... NATE BERKUS When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experie... EDWARD BURNS Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't fe... BILL KREUTZMANN I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I d... RAJIV OUSEPH I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m... HARMONY KORINE Softball is my favorite sports and it means a lot to me. I have been playing it since I was 6 years ... MALERIE HUBER My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'R... GEORGIA KING There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on th... HARRY DEAN STANTON It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn... JASON KIDD One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin... SHAWN MICHAELS I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't ... BOB BEAMON I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ... ADAM MCKAY I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I ... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate ca... CURT SCHILLING When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it a... TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School'... WILL FERRELL I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders,... JUNIOR SEAU My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane'... TILDA SWINTON When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I wa... CATHERINE BELL When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, bu... SUSANA MARTINEZ Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sund... DIANA RIGG When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was ... NIECY NASH I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that'... TAYLOR SWIFT Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left tha... DAVID BOWIE Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his ... SAMANTHA STOSUR You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was preside... RUSH LIMBAUGH I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. ALAN SHEARER I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... LAURA MVULA The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a b... KAT EDMONSON I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years ol... FRANCOIS ARNAUD I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em... BILL CALLAHAN I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T... PAUL POGBA I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - i... ROMOLA GARAI When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really ... JIMMY KIMMEL I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the i... MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pre... KEKE PALMER I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, ... GEORGE J. MITCHELL From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my... ABBY WAMBACH When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b... LARRY BIRD When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in ... QUINCY JONES I didn't know what to expect. Sometimes, the older guys pick on you, but Brendan took me under his w... BRAD BUCKMAN I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometime... ELIZA COUPE I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years - since I was a k... DWAYNE JOHNSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne... CASSADEE POPE I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I us... TAYLOR HAWKINS I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w... JEFF LEMIRE
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