Marcus Mariota Quotes

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets, and my interest grew. He put me in a club, seeing this. My habit grew from that point.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.

I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.