Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.

I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

I think my dad is definitely my biggest role model, personally, just in my day-to-day life.

My mom sacrificed everything for my brother and me. She taught me so many things - about life, love, faith, ambition, and family - and she instilled in me the desire to have my own kids one day.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

My dad did a great job passing on what he learned from his career.

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

I thank God that I had such an amazing father who was my trainer as well.

So much of me is because of what my parents experienced in this country. So much of me is because of the things my parents overcame so that I could have the luxury of having a dream.

My mom and dad did something special when they made me.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

I am a product of my father's work.

My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

I always tell my dad he was training me to be a pro before he even knew it.

I couldn't be more proud of my little sister and the mother she is and am also incredibly proud of my mom and the huge influence she's had on myself, my sisters, and now her grandchildren.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.