My Dad Quotes - Page 25

• My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.

  Sidney Crosby

  Dad, Passion, Games

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• Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

  Randy Johnson

  Baseball, Dad, Heart

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• My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

  Jorge Posada

  Dad, Smart, Games

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• I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.

  Venus Williams

  Dream, Dad, Home

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• My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

  Tim Hudson

  Dad, Play Hard, People

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• My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Dad, Fighting, Wells

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• Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Dad, Kids, Would Be

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• Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

  Patrick Kane

  Dad, Get Better, Want

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• My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

  Andruw Jones

  Dad, Player, Taught

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• My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

  Seimone Augustus

  Basketball, Dad, Hard Work

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• Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

  Josh Beckett

  Dad, Eight, Years

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• My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.

  Robinson Cano

  Dad, Needs, Hitting

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• Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.

  Prince Fielder

  Baseball, Dad, Matter

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• My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

  Cole Hamels

  Mom, Dad, Silly

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• My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

  Steven Stamkos

  Dad, Hockey, Careers

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  George McGovern

  Dad, War, Boys

  "George McGovern's Legacy: From Liberalism to Feeding the Hungry" by Matthew Larotonda, abcnews.go.com. October 21, 2012.

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• My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

  Tim Allen

  Dad, Earthquakes, Foundation

  "Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man". Book by Tim Allen, September 20, 1994.

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• My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

  Rod Stewart

  Dad, Guitar, Play

  "Rod Stewart's Son Asks the Important Questions". Interview with Alastair Stewart, www.redbookmag.com. November 14, 2012.

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• My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Rugby League, Watches

  "When Esquire met Ryan Giggs". www.esquire.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Player, People

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice Guy Finishes First" By Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

  John Molina, Jr.

  Dad, Years, Boxing

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• When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

  Leona Lewis

  Dad, School, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

  Rob Reiner

  Growing Up, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.

  Rob Reiner

  Dad, Party, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

  Matt Barr

  Football, Dad, Athlete

  Source: collider.com

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