Michael Beasley Quotes

I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

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

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don't see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they're only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they're 12 hours away.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.