Ann McKee Quotes

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

My parents didn't play golf.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

I come from a family of doctors and engineers, and everyone expected me to take up a similar career. That was the most natural thing to do!

I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.

As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.

I was not aware of what my dad had accomplished. I grew up with him playing football.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So I grew up thinking that plucking characters out of the air was an extremely normal way to behave.

I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.

It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.