Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. Drew Bledsoe
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. Anthony Bourdain
Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early. Ray Floyd
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. Joan Didion
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do. Harmon Killebrew
I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.Drew Bledsoe
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early. Dontrelle Willis
I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you. Dan Brown
I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went. Enos Slaughter
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. Babe Ruth
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. Margaret Atwood
I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning. Derek Jeter
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. Martha Beck
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there. Wendelin Van Draanen
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. John Henrik Clarke
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect. Herschel Walker