Erin Wasson Quotes

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.

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

I grew up playing every sport.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

Like many kids, I grew up sports-minded.

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

I was one of those athletic African players.

Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating.

Since I've been in fourth grade, all I've known was basketball.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I was a jock.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.