Robert Sapolsky Quotes

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.

I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.