Masai Ujiri Quotes

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.

My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!

I spent a lot of my school vacations in Devlali because my grandparents lived in the cantonment there.

I have to always go back to Tim Horton's, it's my favorite spot. I remember growing up as a kid - my mom, every Saturday morning she'd go the hairdresser and she'd give me two dollars to go buy donuts.