Heck, I picked my race number because of two of my sports hero's at the time. 115...11 for Mark Messier and 5 for Nigel Mansell.
My "number" goes way back to when I was a kid first starting hockey/baseball. We had to pick a # from the pile, and the first # that popped into my head was #12 . Because it was our mailbox # lol. It's been with me ever since.