Alex Lowe Quotes

We don't have very many nights out on our own, and by most people's standards we don't have much of a social life. But for us the compromise works, and I think the best thing I ever did was to have a family.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

I am not the kind of person who won't get married because of my career, because there was nothing great happening in my career anyway.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.

Family comes first, and golf is second.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.

You can have more than one career, but you only have one family.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.