Keeping it clean is important to me because I’m just aware of my audience. My audience is a younger generation and, just in general, I wouldn’t want to show my mom a video of me swearing like crazy. It’s good clean fun.
You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom – I’m a true believer that it’s OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse.
My mom is my biggest support and critic. I’ve tried to be a good son, and I don’t think I’ve given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.
My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did.
I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
My mom raised me to be a strong person.
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
Just because you are a mom doesn’t mean whoever you were before is gone. You can bring it back.
My mom always said, ‘Don’t date a guy who thinks he’s prettier than you.’
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.
My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I’m not going to play guitar I’m going to play drums. And if I’m not going to play drums, I’m going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
My mom used to tell me: ‘It’s not what you weigh; it’s what you look like.’
When I was 14 years old, I said, ‘Mom, I want to fight MMA.’
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.
My parents always wanted me to do the right thing. My mom, I think her exact words were, ‘You’re not a chicken in the coop playing in the scraps, you’re an eagle.’ I was like, ‘Oh, OK… ’ But really, I‘ve used that throughout my life.
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.
I’d been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms – the way we talk and the gestures that we made.
