Bam Adebayo Quotes

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I wasn't able to see my son as much as I wanted. I thought it would be easy living on my own, do what I want and then travel up to Manchester to see my son, but it wasn't like that.

I miss my family all the time.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don't see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they're only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they're 12 hours away.

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

There's families all across the country that miss people, but there's nothing like military families.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

Whenever I had to move away from my dad, it was so hard; like, I would cry myself to sleep.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

I was playing for 12 years in Europe. It's a long time you know. When you are from Mexico you miss your family, you miss your friends.

Obviously, it's tough - missing my parents, family in general - but I'm getting used to it. It's the life, and hopefully I'll get some time to go home maybe for a week or a bit to catch up on things.

I have already spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning alone, missing my children, and crying because I have no family nearby.

I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don't see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid's birthdays, anniversaries. I'll never be able to go back and be with my family.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.