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JAY MERGENTHALER I've been playing basketball since I was a little kid. It's always been a big part of my life. My in...
MATT CRAIG My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
STEVE NASH I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years ol...
ALEX MORGAN My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young...
ERIC SOGARD
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ... EARL MONROE
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... IRINA SHAYK I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like ...
ERIC VARGAS I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN They think I got released too soon, and my bone wasn't completed healed when I started to play socce...
LAURA ENGEL
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the pi...
ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV I played basketball and softball in high school. I didn't know much about volleyball until my daught...
GINA TRINSEY Things have happened pretty fast for me in this sport. I didn't even start playing until the ninth g...
AUDRA JEFFERS I started playing soccer as a young kid. I wanted to be just like my dad.
JULIAN DALANHESE
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO I was involved with MySpace and Facebook and everything at a very young age because it's so casu...
LIANA LIBERATO My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL
I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is... LINDA SANCHEZ All four of my grandparents come to my games. I have my own little fan club. My sisters and I got al...
AUSTIN RAUGHT I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a w...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I...
JAI COURTNEY
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle ... KARA LINDSAY I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I foun...
DAVID SUCHET I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at socce...
CARL HAGELIN While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON It was my first time playing in front of my friends and family, so I was very nervous. I didn't know...
LAUREN HARRIS I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backya...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a dieha...
JENNA DEWAN I'm not playing at my best, I don't feel the ball well. I have a new coach and he's changing things ...
JELENA JANKOVIC
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school... GABRIEL LUNA I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always kn...
ALEX WINSTON I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy...
WALTER O'BRIEN Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football... IAN MCSHANE I hoped it would be easier obviously. I was playing quite passively and got caught up in that. I gue...
ROGER FEDERER I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH I always had a basketball in my hands when I was little. Wherever there was a hoop you could always ...
BRANDON MOTON Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET
I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of ... SHILPA SHETTY I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I s...
HERBIE HANCOCK Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
MASON COOLEY (I) Went to St. Paul Lutheran and started playing. I always had a basketball hoop in my room. When I...
JAKE PEYMANN I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby s...
GARY LLOYD
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B... EARL MONROE
Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall i... NEIL GAIMAN
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic bo... LEN WEIN I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll...
HAMPTON SIDES I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the di...
TYSON CHANDLER My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality,... EMMITT SMITH I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love sin...
GEORGE BENSON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and... LISA LOEB
Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of... ABBY WAMBACH The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
GARY NUMAN
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and ... LISA LOEB Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
LACEY SCHWIMMER
The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day ... NICK KROLL It was fine til I went and stretched before my first at-bat. I have my little routine I do on deck s...
DOUG MIENTKIEWICZ
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Wh... LADY GAGA I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been r...
BIRDMAN
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY I was playing out of character. I wasn't playing to my strengths. Now I'm just playing with a little...
BRIAN LAING
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI It was my turn to captain, ... I've been playing for quite a few years and had never taken that resp...
BOB HAMMOND I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ... RONNIE LOTT I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled...
AWKWAFINA Being used so much is a surprise. I was planning on playing a little more baseball. When I started p...
BRETT CASEY
When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in te... MARISA MILLER I did a lot of other things besides scoring the basketball. I got my guys a lot of open looks. I pla...
DANIEL GIBSON It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c...
DOUGLASS NORTH I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball ...
DANIEL CORMIER You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
CYNDI LAUPER I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
CARLENE CARTER I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions o...
CHARLES VAN DOREN I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media stud...
RAJIV OUSEPH My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I love playing basketball and I wanted to give this a try after graduating from college. I got my de...
ADRIENNE NORRIS
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketb... ZENDAYA I was close to not playing because of feeling unwell. I felt tired and ached in my body. But I gave ...
SIMON KHAN Since I have been gone so long, my greatest memories are in high school my growing up, ... I was inv...
JOE SEARS Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a fa...
AJAY MEHTA Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
ARIEL PINK I was always an outside player, but I was bigger than everyone else so I played inside. I'm working ...
LEON FREEMAN I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, bu...
MADDIE ZIEGLER When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK
