Saina Nehwal
Related My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me. TAUFIK HIDAYAT OLGA KURYLENKO Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played bad... HOWARD BACH What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badm... RAJIV OUSEPH KANGANA RANAUT It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi... NANCY ROMAN LIN DAN As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance ... RHONDA CATOR LIN DAN DEEPIKA PADUKONE I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome... GLADYS KNIGHT My mom never pushed me into it. In fact, she didn't want me to do it all. This was my choice - my ob... MARGARET VAGA I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done rea... RAJIV OUSEPH She was talking a lot of stuff about my mom. She pushed me, I hit her and it was done. CHRISTI NARDOZZI Swimming is my sport... my parents wanted to give me the best opportunity to excel. JEFF MONTAGUE DONALD TRUMP SAINA NEHWAL SAINA NEHWAL ETHEL WATERS From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ... GAVIN O'CONNOR My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in... NORMAN LAMM I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ... MOUNI ROY Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women t... CASSADEE POPE My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit. MARK BRADFORD LAURA MVULA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &... PER PETTERSON ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH GORDON GETTY My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN JERRY REINSDORF JACK BLACK JOHNNY CASH My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acti... CATERINA MURINO STEPHEN CHBOSKY I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me. MAGGIE GEORGIANA YOUNG My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to wr... CHRISTINE ELISE PADMASREE WARRIOR SAINA NEHWAL My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ... LAUREN GIBSON He’s so outta my league, we’re not even playing the same sport… He’s professional soccer in ... NICKI ELSON B. B. KING My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul... TED LIGETY JOHNNY CASH DENIS JOHNSON JUDITH BUTLER AMY TAN WALTER DEAN MYERS RUBY ROSE She'd go past three of my defenders and ended flipping the ball from the corner both times, coming f... CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me ... TOBEY MAGUIRE RICHELLE MEAD STEPHEN CHBOSKY I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she conv... VIJAY DELTA GOODREM I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to... REBECCA GAYHEART I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my ... EDGARDO OSORIO JAY PHAROAH ANDERSON COOPER LENA DUNHAM LIN DAN My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h... NANDAN NILEKANI CHELSEA CLINTON My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taug... MARK HOPPUS I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very sim... RAJIV OUSEPH One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing,... MANDY BUJOLD NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her... JOE SPARICO At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a sing... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry t... ALLIE SALLUVINIQ My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o... NORMAN LLOYD Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice... LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ... JAMES GANDOLFINI I wanted to be a criminologist, but my mom was always telling me that I should be a model. ESTHER CANADAS My mom sent me some Creative Memories products after my third child was born, and I loved it, so I s... KRIS LOCKWOOD CHIWETEL EJIOFOR He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov... ANN MERIDETH I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out... JAY LONDON For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA RACHAEL LEIGH COOK The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of... ERIK HASSLE EMMA CLINE I was fortunate growing up on the farm. My parents were very understanding and backed me up all the ... KRIS WALTER SAINA NEHWAL My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character ev... RHEA PERLMAN My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist... KABIR BEDI Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you. WENDY LIEBMAN I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great s... OMAR SY JAMES E. FAUST DONNA MILLS I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather... RACHEL BLOOM The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live... BEN MENDELSOHN CHANNING TATUM My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost q... ANDRE WARD I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ... WYCLEF JEAN
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I love badminton. That's my sport! 
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not i... 
Badminton is a cruel sport. 
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best an... 
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not i... 
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up th... 
Badminton is not a popular sport in India. 
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drink... 
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... 
My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ... 
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... 
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set wi... 
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla... 
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things ... 
My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. ... 
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... 
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... 
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianis... 
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... 
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... 
I’d been raised to be practical and keep my
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... 
Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sp... 
You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was defi... 
I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that... I obviously grew up with great privil... 
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious th... 
My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ... 
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar... 
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... 
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. 
They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability t... 
I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, bu... 
That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing an... 
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering.... 
I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.