The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.
Interpretation
Being a father is the most significant role in Stuart Scott's life, emphasizing the importance of family.
In this quote, Stuart Scott expresses that his role as a father is his top priority and a source of fulfillment, surpassing all other achievements in his life. This highlights the deep emotional connection and responsibility that comes with parenthood, suggesting that personal identity and success are greatly influenced by one's role within the family unit.
In practice
In a speech about prioritizing family values, I might quote Stuart Scott to emphasize the role of fatherhood.
You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'
I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'
Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.'
Diversity means understanding.
My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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