Bernard Lagat Quotes

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I like a guy who is confident and easy-going, but a man who's a man, not a man who is a little boy. I like a man who is comfortable with himself.

A hard man is good to find.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

I had to grow up very quickly.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think I am an adult.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I'm not a girl anymore.