Quotes About Childhood

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.

As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped it.

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

The kind of encouragement I had as a child to continue sports was brilliant. Like any other family, my people asked me to stress more on studies rather than swimming. But, my mother said 'He enjoys it and should balance both studies and sports.'

I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents' pool.

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.

My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.