Guy Martin Quotes

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'

My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

Look, I'm an entrepreneur, I want to create things, I'm a builder. I don't want handouts. If I didn't play football I'd be doing something else. That's me. I don't want to be held back. I want to go forward. I want to better myself.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

My first vehicle I had to buy it myself and work to get it. My dad was really hard on me.

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.