Eli Manning Quotes

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

My mom never let me dye my hair, and I would beg her every single day. When I was 16, I told her I wanted to dye it purple, and she let me - probably because she never thought I'd actually do it. Then I just stuck with it.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I was a troubled young kid, and I would try to break every rule.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Naturally, when you're a younger brother with two older brothers, I mean, they're going to beat on you, and they're going to make you... you're going to grow up differently. You're going to turn into a little animal.

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused to admit it and so often I would - well, tell lies, perhaps. I would either do that or change the story. Particularly if I felt that my father was being unjust, then I was very strongly motivated to not accept his ruling.

I love to test boundaries.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

You have to be a little bad to make history.