Tony Dungy Quotes

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

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

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.

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

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

My dad, he's a great father, but he's also been one of my mentors.

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

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.