Michael Ballack Quotes

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

I see myself as a family man.

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

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.'

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Society wants happy families.

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.

You have kids and everything changes, and I guess before I had my kids I could do what I wanted and go where I wanted.