Aymeric Laporte Quotes

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Don't feel sorry for me.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

My father made me very tough.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

I'll handle living on my own. You've got to learn somehow. I'll take it all in my stride like I do everything else.

It definitely toughens you up. It makes you mature from a young age, living away from home.

My dad never quit no matter what. He couldn't see, but he never let that stop him. Most people, when something like that happens, they just think their life is over. But that's not true. My dad can still do things like a normal person. He still cooks; he still watches my sister and my brother's baby when my mom's not home.

Your bat's not always going to be there.

You always have something. You always have a challenge.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.