Family Quotes

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. When I was younger, I didn’t see my family. I’d go and train all the time, not seeing friends, leaving the country, and stuff like that.

We all need somebody to lean on.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta’ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.

In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn’t for them, I’d be way closer to insanity.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

I’d never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I’d never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I’d never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!