Prithvi Shaw Quotes

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

I'm the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it's tackle or tag.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

My earliest memories were in the back of my grandad's car listening to Test Match Special.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I had a lovely time growing up.

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.