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ARA PARSEGHIAN![]()
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
CANELO ALVAREZ![]()
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
LEONARD NIMOY![]()
I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I...
MARTIN SHEEN When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO I had skied since I was about 8 years old, and at 25, when I became disabled, I had to learn how to ...
MATT FEENEY![]()
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit...
TODD ENGLISH I was head football coach at Baylor for 21 years. I've been out 12, and they've had four head coache...
GRANT TEAFF![]()
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe...
MIRANDA KERR The people here at Nationwide and Ohio State run a first class tournament. We envisioned a Miami-Ohi...
ENRICO BLASI I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovaki...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA We actually got a lot of grief one year when we left out one of the Big Ten teams and took Miami (Oh...
CHARLES HARRIS![]()
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever sin...
LEONARD NIMOY![]()
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later...
JOHN LEWIS![]()
I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I'm the head football coach of the University of Miami, and I want to certainly take responsibility ...
LARRY COKER I'd venture to say there aren't too many other programs in the country where the head coach of a Div...
DON OBERHELMAN I am an Ohio native. Even though I was out of Ohio for 18 years, I attend events at the Ohio State U...
JEFFREY WEAVER Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much ...
LANCE REYNOLDS I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That sh...
GORDON GEE I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
CHARLIE BELL My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) a...
CHRIS RICH![]()
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
MARY KARR![]()
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
AARON PEIRSOL![]()
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ...
JOHN MADDEN When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many yea...
WILLIAM JACKSON I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL![]()
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school...
GABRIEL LUNA When I am on the field, I am an assistant coach responsible to the head coach and I convey that atti...
DAVID ROE I really enjoyed that. It had been so long. It was 27 years. There were some players from Leavenwort...
CLINT JOHNSON I'm at a point where probably in the next couple of years I'm gonna go coach football. It's somethin...
PAT KNIGHT I started wanting to be a head coach when I was 8 or 9. It's been a dream of mine since I was young.
ADAM HOOVER I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing....
VANESSA BAYER I thought it was pretty interesting that old Notre Dame, known for power football for years, spread ...
TOM AMSTUTZ My dad was the football coach for the high school a few years ago and I wanted to play football with...
ALICIA KEYS I have been more an assistant than a head coach, but it is more fun being a head coach. It is more a...
BRENDAN MALONE When you're 6 years old and you're in my house, you're a scout automatically, ... My dad was involve...
IAN ROSENBERGER I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ I think Randy and I both went to Miami because of the tradition they have for coaches. I think we bo...
JOE NOVAK I'm disappointed, very disappointed. I want to wish the entire Valley West football family the best ...
ED MICHAELS These are all the guys I was competitive with and against for so many years. Seventeen years as the ...
DAN STEINKE![]()
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
PEYTON MANNING In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl...
KEVIN MCKIDD![]()
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
NANCY KERRIGAN This is an exciting time for Nevada football and Wolf Pack athletics. I am committed to achieving at...
CHRIS AULT After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem iss...
MICHELLE CARTER 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 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became publi...
TRACEY GOLD![]()
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mo...
BOBBY FLAY I am excited about the tradition here at Miami and the opportunity to be part of the Hurricane footb...
JOE PANNUNZIO![]()
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte...
BIG SMO I started swimming when I was 6 years old at the Arlington Heights summer swim club.
JANIE VANDISH Jeremy was actually with the Cleveland Browns when I was there. His father was a defensive coach, Ji...
VINNY TESTAVERDE![]()
This is a fantastic and improved football team; the impact of the head coach is obvious,
PETE CARROLL I like history, I like working with kids, and I also want to be a coach when I get older, coach bask...
COREY MILLER When I got here, there was a sense of futility. If the old administration had stayed on here for thr...
JON WEFALD At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, i...
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, ...
VINNIE JONES![]()
I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
DEMI LOVATO [Ohio] is going to be a tougher meet than Toledo. I see it as being tougher than when we swam Miami,...
BOB THOMAS The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Not...
ARA PARSEGHIAN We were going into the wind, and they had a great field goal kicker. We punched out a first down, bu...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are more good football teams today, I think, than there has ever been. I think it's much more ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN It was a big, pivotal football game for us. You kind of pointed for them, because of the circumstanc...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Well, the very fact that no one's ever done it is testimony to how difficult it is. It's almost impo...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Some of the old timers might be offended but they have to understand personnel now. You have 250-pou...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are more good football teams today, I think, than there has ever been. It's much more signific...
ARA PARSEGHIAN I don't want to take anything away from what Bud Wilkinson accomplished, because in his era, he was ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. Th...
ARA PARSEGHIAN That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of...
ARA PARSEGHIAN When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that...
ARA PARSEGHIAN If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.
ARA PARSEGHIAN I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Whether you like it or not, ... you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
ARA PARSEGHIAN I would say so. In the modern era, running up win streaks is difficult. This is unusual because of t...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are a lot of similarities between the circumstances,
ARA PARSEGHIAN The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
ARA PARSEGHIAN How in the heavens do you know that?
ARA PARSEGHIAN One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN It's a ways from home, but Miami has one of the top-ranked football and baseball programs in America...
DANIEL STEGALL![]()
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN![]()
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook ...
HARRY MATHEWS When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moine...
DAVID SHIELDS My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks m...
BENNET OMALU![]()
I started skating when I was six years old.
NANCY KERRIGAN I love football and have a passion to help kids learn and see them grow and develop. I lost my dad w...
JEFF CALLAHAN![]()
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had ...
WILLIE NELSON I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER I took a special interest in him. Because if you were going to be head football coach and you wanted...
JOEY PRICE![]()
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it...
BJORK It was hard (to leave) because I love college football. If it wasn't the opportunity it was, I proba...
RON ENGLISH There's things I listen for Nick, in his voice. I want to hear his mood. Even though he's 27 years o...
BOB STAPLETON![]()
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little...
NATALIE PORTMAN I actually carried the torch on my bike for about six miles, bringing it into Indianapolis, where I ...
KIM VIRDEN![]()
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN![]()
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
JOSH BILLINGS
ARA PARSEGHIAN
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer. CANELO ALVAREZ
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. LEONARD NIMOY
I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I... MARTIN SHEEN When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO I had skied since I was about 8 years old, and at 25, when I became disabled, I had to learn how to ...
MATT FEENEY
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit... TODD ENGLISH I was head football coach at Baylor for 21 years. I've been out 12, and they've had four head coache...
GRANT TEAFF
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe... MIRANDA KERR The people here at Nationwide and Ohio State run a first class tournament. We envisioned a Miami-Ohi...
ENRICO BLASI I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovaki...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA We actually got a lot of grief one year when we left out one of the Big Ten teams and took Miami (Oh...
CHARLES HARRIS
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever sin... LEONARD NIMOY
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later... JOHN LEWIS
I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom ... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I'm the head football coach of the University of Miami, and I want to certainly take responsibility ...
LARRY COKER I'd venture to say there aren't too many other programs in the country where the head coach of a Div...
DON OBERHELMAN I am an Ohio native. Even though I was out of Ohio for 18 years, I attend events at the Ohio State U...
JEFFREY WEAVER Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much ...
LANCE REYNOLDS I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That sh...
GORDON GEE I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
CHARLIE BELL My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) a...
CHRIS RICH
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. MARY KARR
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. AARON PEIRSOL
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ... JOHN MADDEN When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many yea...
WILLIAM JACKSON I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school... GABRIEL LUNA When I am on the field, I am an assistant coach responsible to the head coach and I convey that atti...
DAVID ROE I really enjoyed that. It had been so long. It was 27 years. There were some players from Leavenwort...
CLINT JOHNSON I'm at a point where probably in the next couple of years I'm gonna go coach football. It's somethin...
PAT KNIGHT I started wanting to be a head coach when I was 8 or 9. It's been a dream of mine since I was young.
ADAM HOOVER I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing....
VANESSA BAYER I thought it was pretty interesting that old Notre Dame, known for power football for years, spread ...
TOM AMSTUTZ My dad was the football coach for the high school a few years ago and I wanted to play football with...
ALICIA KEYS I have been more an assistant than a head coach, but it is more fun being a head coach. It is more a...
BRENDAN MALONE When you're 6 years old and you're in my house, you're a scout automatically, ... My dad was involve...
IAN ROSENBERGER I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ I think Randy and I both went to Miami because of the tradition they have for coaches. I think we bo...
JOE NOVAK I'm disappointed, very disappointed. I want to wish the entire Valley West football family the best ...
ED MICHAELS These are all the guys I was competitive with and against for so many years. Seventeen years as the ...
DAN STEINKE
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not. PEYTON MANNING In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl...
KEVIN MCKIDD
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. NANCY KERRIGAN This is an exciting time for Nevada football and Wolf Pack athletics. I am committed to achieving at...
CHRIS AULT After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem iss...
MICHELLE CARTER 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 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became publi...
TRACEY GOLD
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mo... BOBBY FLAY I am excited about the tradition here at Miami and the opportunity to be part of the Hurricane footb...
JOE PANNUNZIO
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte... BIG SMO I started swimming when I was 6 years old at the Arlington Heights summer swim club.
JANIE VANDISH Jeremy was actually with the Cleveland Browns when I was there. His father was a defensive coach, Ji...
VINNY TESTAVERDE
This is a fantastic and improved football team; the impact of the head coach is obvious, PETE CARROLL I like history, I like working with kids, and I also want to be a coach when I get older, coach bask...
COREY MILLER When I got here, there was a sense of futility. If the old administration had stayed on here for thr...
JON WEFALD At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, i...
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, ...
VINNIE JONES
I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. DEMI LOVATO [Ohio] is going to be a tougher meet than Toledo. I see it as being tougher than when we swam Miami,...
BOB THOMAS The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Not...
ARA PARSEGHIAN We were going into the wind, and they had a great field goal kicker. We punched out a first down, bu...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are more good football teams today, I think, than there has ever been. I think it's much more ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN It was a big, pivotal football game for us. You kind of pointed for them, because of the circumstanc...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Well, the very fact that no one's ever done it is testimony to how difficult it is. It's almost impo...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Some of the old timers might be offended but they have to understand personnel now. You have 250-pou...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are more good football teams today, I think, than there has ever been. It's much more signific...
ARA PARSEGHIAN I don't want to take anything away from what Bud Wilkinson accomplished, because in his era, he was ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. Th...
ARA PARSEGHIAN That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of...
ARA PARSEGHIAN When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that...
ARA PARSEGHIAN If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.
ARA PARSEGHIAN I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN Whether you like it or not, ... you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
ARA PARSEGHIAN I would say so. In the modern era, running up win streaks is difficult. This is unusual because of t...
ARA PARSEGHIAN There are a lot of similarities between the circumstances,
ARA PARSEGHIAN The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
ARA PARSEGHIAN How in the heavens do you know that?
ARA PARSEGHIAN One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occ...
ARA PARSEGHIAN It's a ways from home, but Miami has one of the top-ranked football and baseball programs in America...
DANIEL STEGALL
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook ... HARRY MATHEWS When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moine...
DAVID SHIELDS My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks m...
BENNET OMALU
I started skating when I was six years old. NANCY KERRIGAN I love football and have a passion to help kids learn and see them grow and develop. I lost my dad w...
JEFF CALLAHAN
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had ... WILLIE NELSON I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER I took a special interest in him. Because if you were going to be head football coach and you wanted...
JOEY PRICE
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it... BJORK It was hard (to leave) because I love college football. If it wasn't the opportunity it was, I proba...
RON ENGLISH There's things I listen for Nick, in his voice. I want to hear his mood. Even though he's 27 years o...
BOB STAPLETON
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little... NATALIE PORTMAN I actually carried the torch on my bike for about six miles, bringing it into Indianapolis, where I ...
KIM VIRDEN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... JOSH BILLINGS
