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It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
Jonathan Franklin
Gift
Job
Teenager
See
Lifeguard
Dad
I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
Jonathan Groff
Halloween
Mary
Mary Poppins
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Lipstick
Oz
Dorothy
Production
Barn
Dad
My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.'
Jonathan Krisel
Mom
Me
Age
Remember
Young
See
Never
He
House
Said
Clockwork
Did
Orange
Young Age
Want
Movie
Again
Interesting
Movies
Show
Dad
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
Jonathan Krohn
Extreme
Obama
Views
Dad
Socialist
Thinks
I want to be a dad, so it's important for me to have a partner who would play a key role in that.
Jonathan Scott
Me
Key
Important
Partner
Would
Role
Want
Who
Dad
Play
I have said to myself that if I don't find the right person, I think I would probably adopt on my own, because I think I would be a great dad.
Jonathan Scott
Myself
Great
Right Person
Own
Think
Would
Would-Be
Find
Adopt
My Own
Because
Said
Person
Dad
Right
We were pretty fortunate that we lived in a very supportive household, so our mom and dad, they didn't care what we did. They just wanted us to do something. Whatever we're passionate about, they would support us.
Jonathan Scott
Mom
Care
Whatever
Our
Would
Pretty
About
Something
Support
Supportive
Household
Passionate
Were
Very
Did
Just
Wanted
Us
Fortunate
Mom And Dad
Dad
Lived
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.
Jonathan Toews
Me
Game
Happy
Remember
First
Wayne
Kid
See
Kings
About
Beat
Taking
Period
Him
Got
Left
Did
Upset
Gretzky
After
Loved
Against
Games
Dad
Play
Started
Jets
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
Jonny Bairstow
Me
Cricket
Took
Tackle
Football
Taking
How
Passed
Grandpa
Mantle
Teaching
Dad
Mum
Away
I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.
Jonny Bairstow
Me
Too
Bit
Andrew
Brother
More
Like
Because
Taller
Got
Than
Squat
Legs
Dad
Mum
I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there's always someone who's got a story about him.
Jonny Bairstow
People
World
Listening
Other
Caribbean
London
About
Someone
Him
Around
Always
Got
Learnt
Been
Lot
Leeds
Australia
Going
Story
Whether
Dad
You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.
Jonny Bairstow
You
Think
Cricket
Out
Had
Know
Around
How
Been
Person
Just
Different
Might
Turned
Even
Dad
Playing
The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.
Jonny Bairstow
Death
Birthday
Cancer
Made
Few
Too
Easy
Having
Week
David
Emotional
Had
Anniversary
Days
Test
Pink
Being
Cap
Breast Cancer
Dad
Twice
Mum
When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.
Jonny Bairstow
Cancer
First
Seven
Beaten
Had
She
Died
Eight
Dad
Fought
Mum
Two
I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw.
Jonny Bairstow
Cause
Ups And Downs
Practice
Before
Own
Late
Teens
Saw
Honour
Tried
About
Net
Adolescence
Drills
Never
He
Knew
Putting
County
Him
Frequently
Matches
Witnessed
Always
Boyhood
Were
His
Did
Yorkshire
Ups
Which
Meant
Full
Dad
Downs
Early
My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two.
Jonny Bairstow
Thoughts
Game
Memory
Word
Somewhere
Thinking
Trigger
Triggers
Minute
About
Someone
Only
Never
Him
Another
Unexpected
Place
Which
Far
Then
Incident
Dad
Suddenly
Two
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.
Jonny Bairstow
Death
Angry
Me
Grief
Darkest
Worst
Only
Raw
Leaving
Were
His
After
Happened
Us
Dad
Ever
Things
My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it.
Jonny Bairstow
Me
Talent
Passed
His
Use
Dad
Mum
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me.
Jonny Bairstow
Myself
Me
Man
Made
Become
Gone
Would
More
Adulthood
House
Still
Than
Decade
Dad
Away
Resolution
Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.
Jonny Bairstow
Life
Game
Cricket
Pump
Adrenaline
Had
He
Performance
Missed
Also
Without
Been
Than
Yorkshire
England
Initially
Dad
Ever
Harder
Playing
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Jonny Lang
Good
Me
You
Guitar
Old
Band
Good Friends
Medicine
Took
Out
Guitar Player
Bad
See
Only
Inspired
He
Years
Friends
Bands
Blues
Them
Really
Fargo
Dad
Play
Player
Ted
Imagine
It's harder to be a dad than an Olympic champion.
Jordan Burroughs
Champion
Than
Dad
Harder
Olympic
It's because of their unrelenting, unconditional support and love I'm able to have the life that I have now and do everything I love to do, and that starts with the selflessness and love of my mom and dad.
Jordan Fisher
Life
Love
Mom
Starts
Everything
Able
Unrelenting
Unconditional
Support
Because
Selflessness
Mom And Dad
Dad
Now
It's the little things you remember. My mam, Sue, would take me to training in a taxi when I was a kid if Dad, who is a builder, had to work on a Saturday morning. You look back at the stuff like that and realise the sacrifices were all worth it.
Jordan Pickford
Work
Morning
Me
You
Training
Little Things
Worth
Remember
Back
Kid
Worth It
Would
Take
Had
Sacrifices
Stuff
Like
Look
Builder
Were
Realise
Little
Taxi
Who
Dad
Sue
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Things
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
Jordan Spieth
Life
Day
Me
Game
Focus
College
My Life
Telling
More
Like
Him
Felt
Motivated
Quit
Going
Pitcher
Golf
Dad
Hardest
Played
I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
Jordin Sparks
Beautiful
Mom
Me
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Okay
Fact
Taller
Always
Up
Friends
Than
Bigger
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
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