Craig Bellamy Quotes

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

Dorm-room life was a tough transition. You're young, and you realize how much you miss the comfort of home.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

Being a teenager is complicated.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.