Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.
When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
My kids are my biggest motivation.
My mum was very determined and motivated and always wanted the best for us. That rubs off on you.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.
Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.
Because of my dad, I started playing the game. Seeing him motivated me to play. He's been an important part of my life.
The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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.
What keeps me going is my children.
Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.
Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.
My kids motivate me to keep moving forward. My kids are my everything.
Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.
My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.
My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
