Jessica Ennis-Hill Quotes

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

My first priority is time with my family.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.

With TV shows that film in London, you're pretty much around for your kids, so that's good.

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

Kids grow up, and they still need you.

I just want to be there for my kids.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

I want to be there for my children. You want to make sure you're alive more than anything.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.