Larenz Tate Quotes

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

My mom was the strongest woman I know.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.

Mum was the strongest person I knew.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

My mother was my rock and my inspiration.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.

My mom set a great example, and I love her.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were homeless.