Riaad Moosa Quotes

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse so I was going to go into medicine, also.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.

I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.