Gaines Adams Quotes

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.

We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

You don't have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.

For me, it is important to get away from football, to calm down, relax, and have fun with family and friends.

Away from football, it is just family. I try to spend time with my kids - I have to spend a lot of time away, so every time I am at home, I like to spend time with them.

Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

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

I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.