Devon Cajuste Quotes

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.

My parents were great at making sure I got out of bed when I needed to play football on a Sunday morning and that I was ready after school to go to training on a Tuesday and Thursday. But it was never forced upon me or rammed down my throat. If it had been, I could have ended up hating sport.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

I grew up thinking that I could be anything I wanted to be in this world because my mom told me that every single night.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

I wouldn't have become the player I have without my father.

I want to make all my family proud, particularly my mum, Sonia.