Todd English Quotes

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

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

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

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.

I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

I started in Grade 2. I went with my aunt and her boyfriend to an arena, an outdoor rink which was a block away from my grandparents. My grandpa came from Oregon. He had coached his son, my uncle, in hockey, and he was happy to get me involved in it.

I have been an athlete for much of my life starting at the age of 4.

Coach Kingsbury, I know the type of offense he runs. He recruited me out of high school and I have a great relationship with him.

My dad coached pretty much my whole life. I think he stopped coaching me when I got to the seventh, eighth grade, serious AAU, when I started getting recruited and stuff like that.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

Every vacation was taking my brother and I to camp, whether it was football camp, wrestling camp, or whatever it was.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

Everybody asks me, 'Lee when did you know it was time to retire?' I said, 'when they quit asking me to coach.' After the Orlando Renegades, not many people were busting down my doors to coach, so why not do something else.