Naomi Alderman Quotes

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I grew up playing every sport.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.

I played football. I was pretty bad at that.

I have been an athlete for much of my life starting at the age of 4.

I have always been around sports my whole life.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I played sports in high school and in college.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.

You would not want me on your football team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.