A Quote by Artie Lange

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete. — © Artie Lange
I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

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I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties.
As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.
I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
As a kid, playing sports, I was never the best athlete on my teams, but I was always the guy people looked at as the workhorse.
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid is different than for another kid.
I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
I think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.
As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.
From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.
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