If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

That's part of being a rookie and growing up as a player. You don't get your proper rest (on a five-hour train ride), but we want him to play as much as possible.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.