Geeta Phogat Quotes

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

My father was very strict.

I can still remember how my mother would shout my name out of the window because I was playing football late at night and had school to attend the next day.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

My mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I had to go to bed at 7.30 P.M., and when I'd ask why, she'd say, 'Well, you do get a bit grumpy when you don't have routines'. Then I realised, when I was a bit older, that's actually true.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

My mom could be pretty strict.

When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.