"When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'" - Rip TornTweet
"All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all." - Tiger WoodsTweet
"Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose." - Mitt RomneyTweet
"My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'" - Ryan LochteTweet
"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved." - Carlos SantanaTweet
"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!" - TerenceTweet
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war." - E. B. WhiteTweet
"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money." - Charlie SheenTweet
"My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat." - Leonardo DiCaprioTweet
"Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes." - George EadsTweet