Quotes About Fatherhood

I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That's the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That's bigger than any record I'll ever set.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it's possible. It's not easy, but it's possible.

I won't feel I'm Roman's boss just because I'm his dad. I've never had that relationship with him at all. It wasn't the way we brought him up. We were friends. If Roman did something wrong, I showed that he hurt me rather than telling him off.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that.

Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.

I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.

I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

If I'm half as good a dad to my two kids as my dad has been to me and my brother and sister, my kids will be lucky.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

My father drove a bus in Anderlecht and he took me to training every day in Brussels from when I was 11 to 18.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen.

He should write his name as Jaan Rita Bhattacharya, not Jaan Kumar Sanu because, firstly, Ritaji has done a lot for him, and secondly, people will start comparing him with me, which is not good for him as a newcomer. I'd be the happiest father to see him successful.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.