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I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I did not have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

My dad's not here, but he is watching in heaven.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

I do love to be a dad. I hope I do be great at it. That is every man fear, yet his most important job.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I did not have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I have got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I will never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they will never have to work another day. I will do whatever it takes to look after them.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.