Kurt Russell Quotes

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

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I was born to play baseball.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.