Keyshawn Johnson Quotes

I was on a basketball team as a kid, and there were two twins who were a little older and a little bigger than I was, and there was some bullying going on there.

Kids are really cruel.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Kids are pretty brutal.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Kids are very cruel to each other.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

I played lots of bullies when I was a kid.

We all remember growing up with mean girls, right?

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.

I don't know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn't work in basketball.

We're just having a lot of fun and ripping each other all the time. We get stuck into each other about everything: about the football or about Fifa. Anything. It's all part of team bonding. It's all very natural.