Terence Crawford Quotes

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.

I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that never totally heal. There's closure and then there's stuff that's kind of like, Well, I guess it's going to be in the minivan forever. And you carry it with you and you continue on your journey with your minivan full of stuff, which I think most of us do.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

Pain is part of the past. There isn't one of us who doesn't still carry childhood wounds. Some are more horrific than others, but no matter how painful your young memories are, there were also glorious moments that kept you alive, or you would not be here today.

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

My greatest fear for my child is that he marries a woman exactly like me.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.