Jurgen Klopp Quotes

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

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

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

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

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.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

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

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.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

There wasn't a kid in my neighborhood who knew his dad. My mother did it for us, and she still thinks I'm an underachiever.