Perry Como Quotes

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.

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.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

One fight, I went away to train and my little girl was in Pampers. I came home and she was potty-trained. She was crawling when I left and walking when I came home. These are things I don't want to miss anymore.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

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.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

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

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

My kid grew up with me being on the road.

I missed a lot of important milestones in my children's lives to pursue this sport.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn't spend nearly enough time with my son when he was growing up.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.