I always watched professional football and my father…

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football,…

— Cam Newton

I watched professional wrestling at a very early age.

— Aleister Black

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a…

— Arnold Palmer

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

— Bobby Riggs

As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.

— Sasha Pivovarova

My dad has been to every soccer game that I've played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he…

— Alex Morgan

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time…

— Jacob Ruppert

I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.

— Santi Cazorla

I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the…

— Aymeric Laporte

“I used to watch football with my father sometimes. But I never knew much about it. I watched because he liked to, and I…

— Rosalind James

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the…

— Jorginho

I have great memories of watching SEC football with my father on Saturdays and playing football in the backyard with my two brothers right…

— Will Muschamp

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

— Eddie Rabbitt

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

— Diego Forlan

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say,…

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan