For some young people their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys when I was a tomboy was a great way to learn about winning and losing and most girls didn't have that experience.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The media says that equality for women has arrived but if you look around you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace in marriage in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting rebellious time.

I am playing the violin that's all I know nothing else no education no nothing. You just practice every day.

Education levels the playing field allowing everyone to compete.

Looking back video game design seems a natural fit although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.