I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Andy Grammer

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

If you play against a Peyton Manning, that's a great quarterback, but I'd rather have that quarterback that stays still. You have a better chance of getting to him. The mobile quarterbacks, they do a lot of different stuff.

Aaron Donald

Great Chance Art

On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

Aaron Lazar

Age You Way

My personal goals have always and will always take a backseat to the team.

AB de Villiers

Will Ways Way

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Car Age You

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

Adam Garcia

Work Men Whether

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Adam Levine

Age You Yoga

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Adam Mansbach

History Vinyl Use

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

Adam Rapp

Art Age Wit

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

Adam Schiff

Faith Year Wit

Looking back on it, I'm extremely blessed to play on two very good teams, with great quarterbacks and owners.

Adam Vinatieri

Great Good Art

There's nothing like work to take your mind off setbacks.

Aditya Roy Kapur

Work Your You

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

Al Franken

Art Age Zen

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

Alan Alda

Life Age Wings

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.

Alan Stern

War Wit UN

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

Alber Elbaz

Time Age Yes

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.

Alessandra Ambrosio

Men Design Age

Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.

Alex Berenson

Money Men Tie

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

Alex Kapranos

Food Age You

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Art Wit Wing

Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.

Alex Smith

No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.

Alex Smith

I love doing the in-ring promos more than doing the backstage promos because I love being able to interact with the crowd.

Alexa Bliss

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Alexander the Great

When you're at the highest point of your career at the highest level in your sport, any moment that you have these setbacks and injuries is devastating. You have to start back from zero, and you never know if you're going to get back to where you once were.

Ali Krieger

Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have their drawbacks. The lumbar vertebrae are under great strain, and as we age, the ligaments that hold the pulpy centres of the intervertebral discs in place dry out.

Alice Roberts

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Alison Bechdel

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.

Alison Brie

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Allen Klein

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Allen Klein

It doesn't matter how young or old you are, and whatever jersey you wear, you realise the derby games prick up the hairs on the backs of people's necks.

Alun Wyn Jones

I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.

Alyssa Edwards

I haven't played with too many guys like Dak Prescott, so I think he definitely deserves everything that's coming to him. He definitely deserves to be paid amongst the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league.

Amari Cooper

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

Amari Cooper

Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.

Amari Cooper

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

Amber Valletta

Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.

Amy Morin

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

Ana Ivanovic

If I'm contested, I'm not going to shoot the pull-up 3. But if I'm wide open and someone backs up off me, I'm gonna shoot it.

Andre Drummond

I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.

Andrew Benintendi

'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Andrew Luck

I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

Andrew Luck

Look at the English league. Everyone down there backs it. That's why it's so highly spoken of. If Scottish football can do that, it will make it a lot more appealing to some fans who are maybe not coming.

Andrew Robertson

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.

Andrew Wiggins

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Andy Grammer

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

Andy Van Slyke

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

Angela Duckworth

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

Ann Wagner