Tim Ferriss Quotes

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.

I had terrible ear problems and asthma and allergies. I spent quite a bit of time in hospital up to the age of eight so was not - am still not - extraordinarily intelligent.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

I've been in and out of hospitals a lot in terms of family or extended family or myself.

I been going to the hospital since I was born, about 10 times a year, for about a week or two each time.

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.

I was not active in films for three years owing to some treatments I was undergoing.

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

I've been operated on 13 times.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek's little sister at school wasn't the easiest thing.

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.

My body is not supportive of my career. My body has other plans for me. My body's plan is to slowly rot from the inside. By the time I'm ready to have kids, it's not going to be viable to do that.