Condola Rashad Quotes

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.

As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

In high school, I was into a lot of different stuff, and I did ride skateboards.

I know I'm a dog. I'm a beast especially when it comes to long jump.

I was such a dork in high school. I like - I played sports. I played in the symphony. I auditioned all the time. I was thrown off the sports teams for auditioning all the time.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

I was a pitcher, played third base, shortstop. I was good at all the positions and great at none. All it takes is a .111 lifetime batting average to make you go into acting.

My mom was a high school gymnast.

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.

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.

I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball and theatre.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.