Leon Bridges Quotes

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

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

Bullies are just frightened people.

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

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.