Dorian Yates Quotes

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

I like to travel by myself.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'