Jamie Lynn Spears Quotes

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

Everybody thinks that I would go to Miley and my dad for advice, and I get that they're very successful and very big in the music industry, but I look at them as my sister and my dad.

The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.

There is lot of advice that I take from my brothers, as I am the youngest one. They give lot of advice to me.

I wish there were people who gave me roles like my dad did.

It started with my parents, my dad who taught me growing up, my brother who played as well. I spent a lot of time with him. Then, getting into the pro side, there have been a lot of people who have worked with me along the years.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.

Because of my dad, I started playing the game. Seeing him motivated me to play. He's been an important part of my life.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

My dad coached pretty much my whole life. I think he stopped coaching me when I got to the seventh, eighth grade, serious AAU, when I started getting recruited and stuff like that.

Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my best friend, my school teacher - really my dad.

Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.

I think I'm a better person because of my family.

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

My dad is my hero. We have a strong relationship around sport. It has been such a big part of his life and now mine, and for him to be one of my coaches is a great thing.

I have learnt from many experienced players in the Mumbai team as well as the India A team how to be consistent. That helps a lot to ensure that I don't get into bad form.

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

I just looked up to my brother because he was a professional. He was the one I wanted to follow.

My family played a huge role in my success, a huge role.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.

You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.

Getting to number one in the world without a coach is highly unlikely.