Quotes About Family

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I don't post pictures of my grandchildren unless I get permission. I'm really respectful about that. If I feel like anything is invasive of someone's privacy, I don't do that, either. Sometimes I have great pictures, but I'm like, 'Eh, maybe this is not right.'

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

My mum will never ask if I'm seeing anyone; I'm not that kind of person anyway. I'm very private.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.

I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I'm with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect my private life.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

Changing from Sevilla to Barca is huge in every sense, and it's not easy, but having a private life so full of love helps. I get strength from my two girls. And my philosophy is enjoy it.

My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.

My mum is the opposite of my dad. She's a very private person, very shy and totally against boxing. She never watched any of my fights live. She hated me doing it.

My father's a very private person. I mean a very private person. His life outside of basketball, he doesn't really share it with anybody.

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend some of the football camps. They got through some hard times, but it was for me, and that's what I've learned from them. I'm very grateful for that.

For me, at least with my parents, I feel that they wanted me to have all the opportunities that they did not have, and for them, that meant going to private school.

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

My adopted parents were able to pay for me to go to a private school. So I had it better than most people.

Anyone who sends their children now to government schools usually does it because they can't afford private education. I went to a government college where 350 out of 400 girls said their brothers go to private schools.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

I will say, this is something, this praying for people to die thing, that's something that I came to believe was unscriptural. And for years, I made these arguments to my family, in writing, privately in letters that didn't get responses and in interviews. And for a while, they just doubled down. Eventually, they came to stop doing it.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?