Jessie James Decker Quotes

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

My dad was a midfielder, like I am, and he was good, too. When I saw him playing as I got older, I could see he really knew how to play. He didn't have all the chances to grow and have a great career that I got, but he did what he could.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

I used to play everything, but people in my village said football is in my blood because my father has been a footballer.

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

Most of my family are good athletes.

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

My parents have been volleyball players, and my dad is an Arjuna awardee in volleyball.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.

This whole golf thing was so left field for us, as Polynesians, but he had a lot of knowledge about sports in general. My dad was a genius, really. He was an absolute genius.