Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.

But being a father is as good as it gets.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.

Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

I'd love to have kids.

Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!

I was the first Pea to have kids - you know how it is - I have three wonderful children, and when we talked about that time, and Fergie would say 'Tab, what is it like?' I always told her when the time is right, it's gonna happen for you, and God bless her, and I can't wait to see baby Ferg.