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My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

— Andre Ward

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

— Garth Brooks

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

— Anthony Doerr

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

— Pele

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

— Bindi Irwin

The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said to myself, 'I have to run just like him. I have to shoot just like him.'

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

— Joakim Noah

✗Opposing Perspectives

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

— Eric McCormack

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

— John Mahoney