Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I was three years old. I had a go-kart that my dad had on a leash so I would not go too quick.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

When me and my dad are walking down the road, sometimes we catch someone with Grealish on the back - sometimes it does bring a tear to my dad's eye.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

My dad took me to my first movie.