Mithali Raj Quotes

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.

My parents didn't want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no, if you're going to play any sports, play baseball.

I played three years as a junior.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

In very few countries I enjoyed cricket more than I did in India. I would always remember the love my team and I got from the fans here.

I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.