Stefon Diggs Quotes

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

My stepfather is my mentor. He's also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

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

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

My uncle is just, like, always pushing me to be better, be a man, and showing me the ropes of the game.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.