Alan Thicke Quotes

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

I'm doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

The healthy child has to have something to look forward to.

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great - or at least being active. You'll find your confidence. Without it, you're nothing. It's the remedy for everything.

I want to clean up my handle. Get stronger. Those are the things that will help me out in the long run.

It is normal that when results are better, self-esteem grows, and improving things becomes more easier.

Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better, it can only be a positive thing.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.