"I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father." David Beckham, Footballer, model, actor and sports ambassador

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." William Shakespeare, Playwrite

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. Champion glolfer, Tiger Woods

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband. Sir Rod Stewart, Singer

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." Author, Umberto Eco, Author

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Unknown Author

 "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, Author 

"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." Mario Cuomo, American Democratic politician and three-term Governor of New York 

"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them." Confucius, Chinese philosopher

"In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians." Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre fro Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University.

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." Unknown Author

"Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad." Anne Geddes, Australian-born photographer 

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back." Imelda Marcos, First lady of the Philippine for 25 years and avid shoe collector

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life." Dawn French, Actress, comedienne and author