Peter Crouch Quotes

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

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

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I've been bullied a few times in school.

Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it's your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it's really difficult when you've got 20 or 30 girls against you.

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

In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the drama kids, we were looked at like we were aliens, and people would call us names and say, you know, 'It's stupid to be in drama.' They would say a lot worse things, to be honest.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I was different and people made fun of me.

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

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.