Quotes about Dad

“I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.”

“Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.”

“I have two brown boys I have to raise and I have to teach them the inequalities that being a black man comes with. That's a tough conversation to have with a young kid who doesn't see anything, who's always sheltered, who can get anything he wants, who's going to go to the best schools but at the same time he's a black boy and his dad is black.”

“My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.”

“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.”

“My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't.”

“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”

“I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'”

“I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.”

“I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.”

“Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.”

“Be there for my dad, like he was for me.”

“In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.”

“I was 14, and watching the Monaco grand prix on TV with my dad. He said, 'That's where the formula one drivers live.' I set my heart on it then - and I made my formula one debut in 1994, and moved to Monaco in 1995.”

“I'm just a regular 24/7 dad now.”

“My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.”

“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.”

“I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.”

“My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.”

“My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'”

“My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, 'Feel your way into it; build it up.' No. My dad would say, 'Straight away, you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.”