Rafael Palmeiro Quotes

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

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.

Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and humble. Both of them taught me to let my golf do the talking.

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their 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.

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

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

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.

In the holidays at school, I used to go training with my dad every day. I used to see the hard work that went in behind what was an unbelievable Wigan team.

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.

Without my dad doing what he did, and without me putting in the hours, there wouldn't be any travelling the world or playing with the pros. He's a huge part of it.

My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eventually, I got a bat and a real ball and played around to see if I could hit left-handed.

I owe so much to my dad and what he has done for me. And it's hard work doing what he has done, so he's entitled to a break.

My parents gave everything. They sacrificed, they went to work. Sometimes they worked 24 hours, so they called friends to help us. They did everything for me to become a football player.

It was my mom who pushed me. My mom actually pushed my dad to train me. My dad knows what it takes to play at this level and be a really good basketball player, and he just wanted me to make the choice for myself.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

We need more coaches like Eugene Bareman in this sport.

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

My dad was able to give me everything through football.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Of course I watch videos of my father's goals from time to time, while I also receive a lot of advice from him, but what you see on the pitch is the result of my own hard work.