Joe Buck Quotes

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.

Mad World' was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and had been brought up by single mothers with absent fathers.

My father was driven, active and always busy. We didn't see that much of him, although he never went far away or stayed overnight anywhere.

Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn't get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I grew up without a father figure.

A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.

I couldn't really tell if it was a different childhood because I was used to it, it was kind of normal to me. The only time I remember it felt a bit odd was when I went to other people's houses and they were calling people 'dad.' I wouldn't get that. But my uncle, who also lived with me, was a father figure.