They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.
But I was very much into sports when I was a child.
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.
I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.
I was a sports kid.
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.
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