“I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to com...” — Benjamin Spock Quote

“I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.”

“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

“As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.”

“The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.”

“The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of them don't even have the basic means like shoes and enough food to eat.”

“In the beginning, when I was first approached by M.L.S., my mother was not too fond of the idea of me playing professional soccer right away. She thought it's more important to get an education than to pursue personal goals, like athletics.”