Ashton Eaton Quotes

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don't like, we make comments on it, too. That's just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don't really compete in that space.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

We all remember growing up with mean girls, right?

I grew up around guys and got along with them better.

Men get together, and they complain about their wives because it's what they feel they're supposed to do. It's as phony as your frat-buddy's stupid tribal tattoos, and everybody knows it.

A hint of competition goes a long way with guys.

I used to love going out and celebrating with the lads. But we can do that in the hotel and I don't miss it. I don't feel that urge any more. Once you make the transition to not doing it then you don't miss it.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

I have an older brother and older sister. My older sister is the girliest girl on the planet, so I just hated everything about that. I did anything my brother did. He actually got me into wrestling. I watched it because he did, and I played video games because he did.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.

I was in love with a girl in my class when I was in primary school, and she obviously thought I was a freak, so that wasn't working out. And the the guys in my class, every two weeks they'd say, 'Hey, we spoke to her, and she really likes you now. You should go and ask her again.' And then I'd go and ask her again.

When I was in college, I wasn't in a fraternity or anything. I always wanted to jump around to all different types of cliques.

I wasn't a party boy.

I was safe, due to my parents, but the Boys' Club was a massive influence.