Tommy Morrison Quotes

I'd had a rough childhood.

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.

In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I have had an extraordinary life, but it's been one incredible roller coaster ride.

I had to fight in K-1 in Japan to make a living between fighting and doing commercial work over there, and it's been a roller coaster in a sense, but it's been a smooth one.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.