Amir Khan Quotes

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.

I can never sit still for five minutes.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.