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NATE ROBINSON My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.
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WILLIAM JACKSON My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
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BRANDON CALEB It was a great honor to be selected. My coach (George Braun) told me I was the first player picked f...
JOE MANNING It's just me and coach (Rocky Lewis) and my dad. It's working out so far.
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The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve...
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BAYARD TAYLOR Corey's done a good job. He's a very athletic young man and works extremely hard.
DAN MAHURIN I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH![]()
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
DAVID FRIEDMAN My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
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DANA CARVEY I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember lov...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE![]()
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ...
TREY ANASTASIO I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My ...
CANDICE ACCOLA He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
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How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to los...
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VIJENDER SINGH![]()
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ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY I practice hard in order to be ready for when the coach needs me and I believe that against Croatia,...
FRAN VAZQUEZ My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T...
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MICHAEL CUDLITZ My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that.
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CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very yo...
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My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're bot...
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ATO ESSANDOH![]()
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH To have the knowledge that would make my father proud is a gift that has not been handed to me on a ...
GARY F EVANS... My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. ...
DICK GEPHARDT My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything y...
JAMES NESBITT![]()
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve...
SAM SHEPARD I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o...
TED DEKKER He was good, very good. He made a better coach out of me. The first time we played them, he scored m...
LOUIE GOLDEN![]()
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WILL FERRELL My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES![]()
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
ALBERT FINNEY My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI So we're walking and my dad is talking about his memories of Coach Bryant and I'm carrying my son. T...
JAY PATERNO When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He...
TIM MCGRAW I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young...
ERIC SOGARD
I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, bu... ALFIE ALLEN My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would ...
RACHEL HUNTER Candace Parker did a great job of attacking and it opened things up.
CAPPIE PONDEXTER
Honestly, Coach is great. He's like a father figure to me because he's so hard on me. Growing up, my... NATE ROBINSON My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.
BILLY BALDWIN My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're go...
BOB CORKER In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said...
MARK SCHULTZ I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM At a young age school came first. It was put in my head that school was first and swimming was secon...
EMILY PFERDEHIRT My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along t...
TOM GLYNN-CARNEY
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, hu... TIGER WOODS Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he s...
BRITTANY HOLESTINE He drove me home, and I remember sitting in my driveway for two hours in the middle of the night tal...
ALLYSON DARNELL
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 My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang...
JONATHAN KRISEL She hugged me and she was crying really hard, more than I was. She was a little sick today and she t...
IVICA KOSTELIC
Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powe... THALIA I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick m... KENDALL JENNER
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a mi... HOMARO CANTU
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my resid... AYAAN HIRSI ALI I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
ELLIOTT YAMIN
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set. TRAVIS SCOTT
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and... EMERIL LAGASSE I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've al...
FAITH PRINCE
When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a... MIKE PENCE
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had ... AMY CHUA
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile. JEB BUSH My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
ISAAC HANSON The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a ve...
WILLIAM JACKSON My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE The Thursday before I came back to Fork Union [I committed]. We took an unofficial visit this summer...
BRANDON CALEB It was a great honor to be selected. My coach (George Braun) told me I was the first player picked f...
JOE MANNING It's just me and coach (Rocky Lewis) and my dad. It's working out so far.
JAYSON SWANSON
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve... DELTA GOODREM The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away t...
PAULA GARCES Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my ...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because ...
KATHERYN WINNICK I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and fin... DEAN KAMEN
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. CLINT EASTWOOD
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You kn... RORY MCILROY I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and ...
IMELDA MAY That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ...
BERNADETTE PEREZ She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my...
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the str... ORHAN PAMUK
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... DOLPH LUNDGREN
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I rea... BAYARD TAYLOR Corey's done a good job. He's a very athletic young man and works extremely hard.
DAN MAHURIN I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and ...
KATE BUSH
My first career was as a coach and a teacher. DAVID FRIEDMAN My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
GRACE POTTER
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very ... DANA CARVEY I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember lov...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ... TREY ANASTASIO I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My ...
CANDICE ACCOLA He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to los... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me t...
VIJENDER SINGH
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. SEBASTIAN COE
My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age.... ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY I practice hard in order to be ready for when the coach needs me and I believe that against Croatia,...
FRAN VAZQUEZ My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T...
BRITTANY LEONARD
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. USAIN BOLT From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I ...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I... MICHAEL CUDLITZ My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that.
STEFON DIGGS I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did e...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very yo...
LANA PARRILLA
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're bot... DAVID SCHWIMMER
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swe... SUSAN LUCCI My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
ATO ESSANDOH
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH To have the knowledge that would make my father proud is a gift that has not been handed to me on a ...
GARY F EVANS... My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. ...
DICK GEPHARDT My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything y...
JAMES NESBITT
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
PAUL MILLER
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... TED DEKKER He was good, very good. He made a better coach out of me. The first time we played them, he scored m...
LOUIE GOLDEN
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of b... WILL FERRELL My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. ALBERT FINNEY My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI So we're walking and my dad is talking about his memories of Coach Bryant and I'm carrying my son. T...
JAY PATERNO When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He...
TIM MCGRAW I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've ... 
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the ... 
Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through lif... 