Steve Schirripa Quotes

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

I just wanted my dad to be a part of my life, wanted him to continue to be there.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

I don't want to be the dad that's not there. I don't want the kid to ever think that I wasn't there.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.