Ginger Zee Quotes

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.

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I grew up playing football and baseball.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

Like many kids, I grew up sports-minded.

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

I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

I played all sports when I was young. I was into wrestling, basketball, baseball, football, and I ran track. But wrestling was my main sport because there was no criterion height-wise.

I played my first game of adult cricket at about eight or nine when the fifth team were short and picked me to field and bat at No 11. From then I just got the bug and wanted to play as often as possible.

I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

I've been running like this since I was seven.

I say that I'm genetically gifted. In a weight-governed sport, I don't put weight on because of my Polish 'heritage, it's genetic. Even when I am not in training, I don't put on weight. When I start training, I don't need to take a lot of weight off.

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.

My seventh-grade year, I played football. I was, like, 15 pounds overweight, so I had to lose a ton of weight. They put me at left tackle; they put me on the defensive line. I absolutely hated football. I didn't want to play again. Eighth grade year, I didn't play.

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.