David Newman Quotes

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

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

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

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

I want to do everything I can to play baseball.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

My mom took my sister and I to music classes. We used to hate practising as kids but my grandma used to make it fun by playing musical games with us.

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.'

My kids would watch from the window and wave to me during batting practice.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

We are footballers, not artists.

With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.

I always remember being competitive. From the beginning, with my brothers, with my friends, playing at school, everything - in everything I was involved in.

I've always wanted to play with great players.

My brother and I played music together, and we all liked to show off. But I wasn't a particularly musical kid. I did piano lessons and quit. I got kicked out of the choir.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

I have so many memories of going fishing and camping as a kid, and my dad had season tickets to watch the Marlins - and that's where I fell in love with the game.

You can't have enough good football players.

I've never studied music.

Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I'd go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom's Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.

There was no music at all during my childhood. The first time we heard music was when my eldest brother bought a tape recorder. Even then, only he was allowed to touch it. But in our house, we listened to legends such as Muhammad Rafi, Mehdi Hasan, Noor Jehan, Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi.