Quotes About Balance

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.