Simon Cowell Quotes

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

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.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

I saw a young boy eating an ice cream cone, ... I smashed it in his face. You know that kid is going to remember me when he's 50.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Violence is not funny.

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

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.