Jerry Kramer Quotes

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it.

I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.

Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.

I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.

As you get older, as a father, you hope your kids can make that kind of impression on somebody who will say, 'Hey, here's a guy that you want, a guy of character, got his head tied on right, a good student, a good basketball player,' whatever it is.

I want to be the best in life. In all parts in life, not just basketball.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won't stop.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.