Adverse Experiences Quotes

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I'd had a rough childhood.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

My childhood was the worst thing on earth. I'm very lucky to have gotten out of that, but I spent 15 years of my life being so incredibly emotionally abused.

I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.