I grew up in Iowa, so I would go hunting. I took a hunter's safety course in eighth grade to get extra credit in school.
I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.
I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military.
Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.
I was a big kid my whole life. I grew up among big people. My brother was a big kid. I didn't really feel like a big kid. Except for the teachers, who pretty much didn't want me to squish any of the other kids.
I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most families had guns for hunting, target practice, whatever. The vast majority of people I knew never used their guns for any crime.
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.
[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
My parents were very spiritual folks. I grew up studying the Bible. My dad's a Christian academy teacher. I grew up with a big spiritual influence. It's a big part of my life.
I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.
I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.