Geeta Phogat Quotes

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

My childhood was so traumatic.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want to give my children what I didn't have - a good role model.

Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.

I have a very interesting story to tell, and people always want to hear about it. They know I'm a 9/11 widow, and I always get comments on that and being an actor and raising my daughters by myself.

I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye... I'm sure those things stick with you.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

My mother, Carole Hedges, was my world until she walked out of our house when I was 7. Actually, she didn't walk out. Alcohol walked her out.

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything that can possibly go wrong for a professional athlete.

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

My childhood went on far too long.

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.