Sourav Ganguly Quotes

When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

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

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

My mom wouldn't let me do child acting.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

I have a sister, in particular, who's 13 years older than me. So growing up and watching her - watching her go to work, especially - was hugely influential to me. As the youngest, with a sibling that's a decade older, I had certain things that I would go to her about instead of my mother.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

I'm from a family of 20, so I'm one of the oldest guys, I grew up a lot having my brothers and sisters walk with me to school when I had to be the guy to watch them and all these things, so I kinda learned how to develop those leadership skills at a very early age.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.

I never really had problems with lefties.

Oh, yeah! Playing 'Young Jackie' came at the insistence of Roseanne herself. Mom obliged but told me that would not be an option again until I was 18. Truthfully, I grew up not thinking I would act.