Dave Barry Quotes

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

I've got three beautiful kids that wear me out after I get home from practice. I think that's a good thing so I'm able to get my rest.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.

My wife, Cristina, is an amazing mother, and I know by the time I get back home, she's ready for a break. Cristina will say, 'Enjoy your nap on the plane.' That's the most sleep I'll get after I hear those voices railing, 'Let's play Daddy Monster!'

I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from the moment they wake up is to make them tired. It's exhausting. Anybody who's got kids knows what I'm talking about.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.