Rajiv Ouseph Quotes

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

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.

In my family no-one did high level sports at all.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

My dad always wanted me to get into motocross like him, so I started doing it while I was really young.

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I got into wrestling at the age of 4 or 5. I didn't watch WWE until later.

I grew up playing sports, and being athletic was just something I have always hung on to.

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.

I was always athletic when I was growing up.

I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.