If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way. Derrick Rose
If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms. Juan Marichal
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! Beverly Cleary
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Bryant H.McGill
It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days. Kevin Johnson
Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss. Frank Robinson
My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was. Paul Pierce
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' Tiger Woods
My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice. /j/jeremy_lin_2.html#FFYFpIi7WBBEW7fp.99Jeremy Lin
My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways. /j/jeremy_lin.html#C4fHvW3SWselC5eA.99Jeremy Lin
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night. Magic Johnson
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. Shaquille ONeal
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' Harmon Killebrew