Family Sports Quotes

One of my favourite parts of training is doing it with Dad in the local nets. When I do that, I feel like a kid again. We never argue. He has to put up with some bad moods from me when I'm not hitting it as I'd like. He's very placid. He's not a pushy parent at all.

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

I started out playing football in the park with my dad. My dad was a bit of a ball player, but he couldn't really be bothered playing.

I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.

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

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

My kids are little athletes.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

In my family no-one did high level sports at all.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.