I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
‐‐ Rajiv Ouseph
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
‐‐ Kurt Russell
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
‐‐ Earl Monroe
I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.
‐‐ Brandon Jennings
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
‐‐ Garry Kasparov
I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.
‐‐ Roshon Fegan
I started playing golf at about four years old.
‐‐ Guan Tianlang
I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.
‐‐ Tom Lehman
I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.
‐‐ Lewis Black
I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
‐‐ Kate Voegele
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
‐‐ Randy Houser
I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
‐‐ Ryan Cabrera
I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.
‐‐ Kip Moore
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
‐‐ St. Vincent
I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.
‐‐ Robby Benson
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom
I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.
‐‐ Stuart Scott
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
‐‐ Randy Houser
I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun!
‐‐ Elle King
I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson
I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.
‐‐ Michael Strahan
I started playing music at a pretty young age.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik
I started playing music when I was 12 years old.
‐‐ Chris Jericho
I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.
‐‐ Drake Bell
I started playing music when I was really young.
‐‐ Aleksa Palladino
I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.
‐‐ Max Schneider
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette
I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.
‐‐ Condola Rashad
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
‐‐ Burt Bacharach
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines
I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.
‐‐ Jimmy Garoppolo
I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.
‐‐ Tim Howard
I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.
‐‐ Milos Raonic
I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit adolescence around 14, I sorta liked girls, so drums became more of a passion, and I started playing in bands.
‐‐ Mitchell Joachim
I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.
‐‐ Drake Bell
I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.
‐‐ Jose Gonzalez
I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was way back in December of 1964, and there's a little bit in the pilot that was used in the first season where Will Robinson is sitting around some bad foam rubber rock playing and singing 'Greensleeves.'
‐‐ Bill Mumy
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
‐‐ Maury Yeston
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.
‐‐ Tori Amos
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
‐‐ Jackson Browne
I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.
‐‐ Phil Ramone
I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
‐‐ Randy Bachman
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
‐‐ Flea
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
‐‐ Johnny Winter
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
‐‐ J. Cole