Paul Pierce Quotes

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I grew up without a father figure.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.