John Elway Quotes

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

I left wrestling to spend more time at home with family.

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

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 think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.