- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.
- Booking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister was always supportive. When I first moved to L.A., she was like 'I know you can do it!' But my parents, in the beginning, not so much. They were kinda like, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' But when I actually started booking things, my dad was like, 'Oh, I knew it all along.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to say what I would be doing if I wasn't a footballer, but I probably would have sold coal like my father. Studying was never my thing, and I would surely have ended up working with my dad.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.
- Amplified
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad would always give me a Snickers before a fight. It gives me energy. It gives me everything I need to get the win.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my Mom and Dad, we always had everything that we needed, but not everything that we wanted. I am going to get my parents what they want, especially my Mom.
- Boxing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's been giving me Snickers since I was six years old. Since I first turned amateur, my dad's been giving it to me.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020