Carlos Vela Quotes

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

I'm a mom first.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

Charan is very mature, and I see myself in him. He also gives equal importance to family, and as an actor, too, he does his job well.

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

I'm not cut out for that life; for sharing my life. Whether it's getting married, or having kids. That too drastically changes your life. Everything important to you becomes less important, because the child gains utmost importance.

My life is about the line, my daughter and my husband.

My wife and son are my world and being there for them in every way possible is the only thing that matters to me... that and my work.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.