Art Quote by Danai Gurira

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right…

— Cody Simpson

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

— Siddharth Shukla

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was…

— Brian Blessed

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents…

— Wilbur Smith

I left Zimbabwe when I was 16.

— Dereck Chisora

I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my…

— George Lucas

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

— Grace Gummer

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

— John E. Walker

My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the…

— Baratunde Thurston

I was the black kid in school who'd skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop.…

— Jermaine Fowler

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired…

— Sebastian Coe

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.

— Aaron Ramsey