There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.