John Wooden Quotes

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

My dad, he's a great father, but he's also been one of my mentors.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.

A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.

I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

You cannot be a famous human being to your children.

If I'm half as good a dad to my two kids as my dad has been to me and my brother and sister, my kids will be lucky.

I was lucky enough to be raised not only by a really talented man but a really good father.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

My father was the best person i've ever known.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.