Eileen Ford Quotes

My family has been really supportive of me and is really happy. They made me who I am and so they trust me and love me and ultimately want me to have love too.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt.

My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.

My family has never put pressure on me. They've always been supportive no matter what.

Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.

My mother, my father, my brother, they've done a tremendous job of preparing me and helping me get right in having confidence.

I come from a family where I have been empowered.

I was lucky enough to be with my parents until I was 14. Having my parents tell me that I could do anything. I was special. I matter.

To my detriment I'm quite rosy-visioned about the idea of love. It's slightly embarrassing but it's part of who I am.

I want to play in a club that gives me confidence.

My mom is, like, my unofficial publicist.

I never doubted my place in the world.

My own performances at Schalke give me a lot of confidence.

My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.