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When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.
ALEXANDRE PATO I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me...
DANIEL BOULUD I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The ...
ALEXANDRE PATO I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES In football, I lifted weights pretty hard corps and that helped me get strong. Wrestling really cond...
ASTIN VILLARREAL![]()
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG![]()
I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play ol...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I'm glad I helped the team, but I didn't jump to my potential. My goal is 18 feet in the long jump a...
CAMELIA SAMS They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I knew [in 2002] that he's good. He had the pedigree. He had the personality. I've watched him matur...
JOE GOTTFRIED The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed i...
ROGER CLEMENS I was really shaky. But then my team helped me get in the groove.
KARA HUYSER![]()
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it ...
GORDIE HOWE![]()
I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the fir...
NATE BERKUS![]()
I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the...
HARRY HOUDINI I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
OXANA CHUSOVITINA I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and w...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY![]()
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was you...
DEBI MAZAR It didn't take me that long to adjust to it because I was more of a defensive player in high school....
JEFF BLAIR I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.
CARNELL WILLIAMS When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan&#...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.
PAUL INCE![]()
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of m...
AZZEDINE ALAIA At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN![]()
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up ...
MARIO LEMIEUX![]()
I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat...
CARSON WENTZ The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the...
DENISE JORGENSON It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,
MEAT LOAF![]()
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-u...
KATHRYN BIGELOW The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was thro...
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND We were in the gym five nights a week, Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 (p.m.) every night. Just runni...
ZACK MORITZ I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anyth...
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I w...
FRANK OZ I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO![]()
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ...
JASON MRAZ I didn't know who Walt was at the time, but it didn't take me long to find out. He had written hits ...
CHAD BRADFORD On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and ne...
CANDACE PARKER![]()
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes...
JOHN MALKOVICH![]()
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going thr...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely ...
NATASCHA MCELHONE When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing ...
JANE BIRKIN![]()
People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester Uni...
CRISTIANO RONALDO![]()
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a...
TOBY KEITH It's terrible to get those comments, ... but at the same time, I am not 17 anymore. I have put in my...
ANDRE BENJAMIN I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties...
RAOUL PECK![]()
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister w...
ANNABETH GISH I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par...
CHAD MOORE It's always frustrating, but I just looked at it as ... it actually helped me out as a player, ... I...
CHRIS BAKER When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri...
LEOS CARAX I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It help...
SAKU KOIVU There was one time when I was on a (fast) break and their guy just tackled me. He just grabbed my by...
GEORGE HILL I had that run planned last night, but I wasn't sure if I was ready to ride yet. But when I saw the ...
DAVE MIRRA He's emotionally mature far below his 18 years. I've seen nothing in my conversations with Billy to ...
GEORGE RERES![]()
That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
AIDA TURTURRO When I was younger I used to do gymnastics and flip a lot, so that helped me with my balance.
KORY SHEETS![]()
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I ...
KAZUO ISHIGURO I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and...
DANIEL BRYAN To lose him is going to be tough. He really helped me step up in my career. We'll miss him but at th...
JAKE PLUMMER![]()
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE![]()
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ...
CARLOS SLIM![]()
It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, bu...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I keep stressing that last year put everything in perspective. I felt like football was my whole lif...
STEVE SMITH The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger.
BRYAN AUGENSTEIN![]()
Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It was very difficult to adapt to these difficult weather conditions. I was supposed to arrive in Ve...
ISABELLA OCHICHI I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
BRODY JENNER![]()
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- an...
DAN STEVENS When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK![]()
My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de...
JASON MRAZ I am gratified by Arsenal's interest, certainly, but my objective is to come back for Milan and ...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY![]()
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in ...
ANURAG KASHYAP When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed ...
FRANK BUTLER![]()
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time. ...
MARISA MILLER I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Co...
ALEXEI SMERTIN![]()
When I first got here, I arrived in my room and looked at the slopes, and I had to take a minute to ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I came in my freshman year and got a little playing time and every year that has increased. That gav...
ANTHONY EDWARDS In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. ...
LUCA GUADAGNINO Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football...
ERIC WEDDLE![]()
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma...
JOHN STEINBECK I'm a big believer in my faith, and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to No...
BRADY QUINN I'm a big believer in my faith and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to Not...
BRADY QUINN![]()
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm...
AL PACINO Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I was playing baseball but thinking about football. My heart wasn't in it.
QUAN COSBY![]()
I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all abou...
BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER![]()
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Ev...
MONICA BELLUCCI When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo ar...
LIZZO I loved Milan. I was there for six years and made my stories there.
ALEXANDRE PATO I remember coming to Winnipeg to play in 2001 and 2002 and how tough it was coming in here to play. ...
BARRIN SIMPSON![]()
I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple...
GIANCARLO STANTON What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong,...
ALEXIS ARGUELLO I was playing up and down. It really helped my confidence and helped me win.
ALEXIS PLUKAS Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.
LEO WHITE
ALEXANDRE PATO I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me...
DANIEL BOULUD I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The ...
ALEXANDRE PATO I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES In football, I lifted weights pretty hard corps and that helped me get strong. Wrestling really cond...
ASTIN VILLARREAL
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. AGNETHA FALTSKOG
I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play ol... JEFFREY TAMBOR I'm glad I helped the team, but I didn't jump to my potential. My goal is 18 feet in the long jump a...
CAMELIA SAMS They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I knew [in 2002] that he's good. He had the pedigree. He had the personality. I've watched him matur...
JOE GOTTFRIED The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed i...
ROGER CLEMENS I was really shaky. But then my team helped me get in the groove.
KARA HUYSER
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it ... GORDIE HOWE
I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the fir... NATE BERKUS
I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the... HARRY HOUDINI I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
OXANA CHUSOVITINA I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and w...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was you... DEBI MAZAR It didn't take me that long to adjust to it because I was more of a defensive player in high school....
JEFF BLAIR I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.
CARNELL WILLIAMS When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan&#...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.
PAUL INCE
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of m... AZZEDINE ALAIA At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up ... MARIO LEMIEUX
I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat... CARSON WENTZ The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the...
DENISE JORGENSON It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,
MEAT LOAF
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-u... KATHRYN BIGELOW The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was thro...
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND We were in the gym five nights a week, Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 (p.m.) every night. Just runni...
ZACK MORITZ I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anyth...
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I w...
FRANK OZ I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ... JASON MRAZ I didn't know who Walt was at the time, but it didn't take me long to find out. He had written hits ...
CHAD BRADFORD On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and ne...
CANDACE PARKER
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes... JOHN MALKOVICH
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going thr... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely ...
NATASCHA MCELHONE When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing ...
JANE BIRKIN
People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester Uni... CRISTIANO RONALDO
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a... TOBY KEITH It's terrible to get those comments, ... but at the same time, I am not 17 anymore. I have put in my...
ANDRE BENJAMIN I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties...
RAOUL PECK
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister w... ANNABETH GISH I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par...
CHAD MOORE It's always frustrating, but I just looked at it as ... it actually helped me out as a player, ... I...
CHRIS BAKER When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri...
LEOS CARAX I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It help...
SAKU KOIVU There was one time when I was on a (fast) break and their guy just tackled me. He just grabbed my by...
GEORGE HILL I had that run planned last night, but I wasn't sure if I was ready to ride yet. But when I saw the ...
DAVE MIRRA He's emotionally mature far below his 18 years. I've seen nothing in my conversations with Billy to ...
GEORGE RERES
That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. DEYTH BANGER
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football... IAN MCSHANE I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
AIDA TURTURRO When I was younger I used to do gymnastics and flip a lot, so that helped me with my balance.
KORY SHEETS
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I ... KAZUO ISHIGURO I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and...
DANIEL BRYAN To lose him is going to be tough. He really helped me step up in my career. We'll miss him but at th...
JAKE PLUMMER
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM
It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, bu... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I keep stressing that last year put everything in perspective. I felt like football was my whole lif...
STEVE SMITH The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger.
BRYAN AUGENSTEIN
Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone... HARUKI MURAKAMI It was very difficult to adapt to these difficult weather conditions. I was supposed to arrive in Ve...
ISABELLA OCHICHI I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
BRODY JENNER
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- an... DAN STEVENS When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK
My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de... JASON MRAZ I am gratified by Arsenal's interest, certainly, but my objective is to come back for Milan and ...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in ... ANURAG KASHYAP When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed ...
FRANK BUTLER
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time. ... MARISA MILLER I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Co...
ALEXEI SMERTIN
When I first got here, I arrived in my room and looked at the slopes, and I had to take a minute to ... CHRISTOPHER REEVE I came in my freshman year and got a little playing time and every year that has increased. That gav...
ANTHONY EDWARDS In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. ...
LUCA GUADAGNINO Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football...
ERIC WEDDLE
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma... JOHN STEINBECK I'm a big believer in my faith, and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to No...
BRADY QUINN I'm a big believer in my faith and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to Not...
BRADY QUINN
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm... AL PACINO Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I was playing baseball but thinking about football. My heart wasn't in it.
QUAN COSBY
I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all abou... BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Ev... MONICA BELLUCCI When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo ar...
LIZZO I loved Milan. I was there for six years and made my stories there.
ALEXANDRE PATO I remember coming to Winnipeg to play in 2001 and 2002 and how tough it was coming in here to play. ...
BARRIN SIMPSON
I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple... GIANCARLO STANTON What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong,...
ALEXIS ARGUELLO I was playing up and down. It really helped my confidence and helped me win.
ALEXIS PLUKAS Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.
LEO WHITE
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. 
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ... 
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, i... 