Spencer Matthews Quotes

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

I don't think my parents know what I do.

I don't really like to share deep issues or anything like that. I have a problem with that. I don't really like to talk about some stuff.

I don't want anyone to know my business, and that's the way I like it.

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

I don't have a crew. I have a small family. I never let anybody from the outside in, because I didn't want anybody to say they did anything for me down the line.

If you had an ex-wife, and it was a pretty bitter split, you might not ever want to talk to her again. Who cares if everybody in the family and your friends want you to say hello again? It's your choice whether you want to do it or not.

When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into a role, and I didn't want to be the little sister or the daughter, because that's who you become as an adult.

It was definitely tough being the coach's son.

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

At home we never mention football. Not with my wife, not with my sons, not with my mother. Sometimes they will see something in the paper and ask me what I think. But I say, nothing.

It is in my nature to be a little shy. It takes time for me to talk to people and trust them.

When I first started making the videos, I didn't tell anyone about it.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.