Edward Albert Quotes

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

I wouldn't be were I am now without my parents.

To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.

Having such a supportive family has really shaped the person that I am today.

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I thank God that I had such an amazing father who was my trainer as well.

I was fortunate to have a dad who was very involved, very present, very wise.

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this position.

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.

My mother, my father, my brother, they've done a tremendous job of preparing me and helping me get right in having confidence.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.