Quotes About Childhood

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

My dad thought my head looked like a basketball, so he set one inside my crib.

When I was young, I was supposed to study in the afternoon, and 4 - 5:30 P.M. was playtime. The entire day would revolve around that time. We would play anything - kabaddi, cricket. Those one and half hours would feel like 5 minutes.

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as well, and we played a lot together. When it was just me on my own, I was bowling at a drainpipe.

We used to live five minutes from the local cricket club in High Wycombe. My brother Kaush, who is seven years older, played there.

I wasn't aware of women's cricket until I was 10. We grew up following the men's game.

This is an old film from donkeys' years ago, but the first film I ever... the first time I ever cried watching a movie was when I was watching 'The Champ.'

When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn't give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

Growing up I loved this brand, and if someone would have told seven year old me that I would be selecting color combos with the originator of Gecko I would have cried.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

Internet safety is quite like the road safety issues when I was growing up as a child. You had clunk click advertising and the green cross man coming into schools to talk to children.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Kids are cruel.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

Miley Cyrus has always been, always been my childhood celebrity crush. I knew all the words to her songs, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not ashamed about it at all.

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

I was like, 'I've got to watch some more of these.' And yeah, I watched 'E.T.,' which I absolutely love. I'm not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.

We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.