Cricket Quote by Joe Root

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with…

— Sid Waddell

I rode my bike to school, I was the head girl, I played the violin, was really nerdy. I was really underweight, so I…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

As a child, I was into cricket and boxing in school.

— Rana Daggubati

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne…

— Hugh Jackman

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods,…

— Margaret Atwood

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met…

— Kim Cattrall

I was very young, but I just remember going to school every day in England, which I didn't enjoy. Every day, as soon as…

— Christian Pulisic

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was…

— Suki Waterhouse

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But…

— Jai Courtney

I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of…

— David Starkey

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as…

— Sajid Javid