Scottie Pippen Quotes

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

My mom died when I was 8.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

My parents were divorced when I was really young.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

The worst thing that happened to me as a child was seeing my brother get pushed into a cement mixer.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

I regret losing my innocence so early.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

I grew up really fast.