Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, born and raised. It was hard. I stayed with my momma, then I ended up moving with my daddy.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.

It's still important to have my dad there. He's the one that brought me up and we spent a lot of time together. It's very difficult for me to let him go. He knows what's best for me and my tennis.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'

I grew up playing tennis. My father has a tennis court at his home in Bel Air and I was always watching him on the tennis court as a kid, he was a fanatic. I started playing seriously around ninth grade.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice.

In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food.

What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

I grew up eating quite well, even though the idea has got around that my family were terribly poor in Communist Georgia. I think it's partly because we had different standards then - it was tough, but we never truly struggled for food.

My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.