Gareth Gates Quotes

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

I am not eloquent.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

I will always have a stutter.

I've got a speech impediment.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.