Joe Root Quotes

Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

There is nothing quite like an Ashes trip Down Under.

When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making a hundred against Australia.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the garden aged about six, and I've never really put the bat down since.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination.

When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.

I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him.

My earliest memories have to do with music.

When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.

Every time I return here, I always have fond memories of my time with Fiorentina.

One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was like my childhood home and my second home.

I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

I just love home. I just attached to it since I grew up there my entire life.

Jardim Peri will be always marked in my life, and I'm always going to bring it with me. It will not only be on a tattoo on my body - but also in my heart.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.