Linford Christie Quotes

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.

I kinda started watching wrestling through Lucha Libre because my grandmother was always watching Lucha Libre.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

I wouldn't be were I am now without my parents.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

We grew up with so much love in our family.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.