Matthew Stafford Quotes
My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
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The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.
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Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
