Saina Nehwal Quotes

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Video games and outdoor sports - that was my childhood.

I'm the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it's tackle or tag.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

My earliest memories were in the back of my grandad's car listening to Test Match Special.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

During your life, you always have different players that you like. When I was a child, because my dad liked the 'Dream Team', I liked Michael Laudrup.

I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.

I remember my dad watched a lot of TV that we watched, too. I remember watching Saved By The Bell because me and my sister watched it, and my dad kind of watched it with us, too, while he was cooking or whatever he was doing in the kitchen.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that