Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.