“If you’re not in the lineup, just be ready, you’re going to hit a home run today,” San Diego Padres catcher Jorge Alfaro reported his mom said.

"Thank you for being a wonderful mother and role model to our daughters and to so many others around the world," the former president said.

"He grinned as if he had the world’s best secret and could barely contain it. 'I am making something special for someone special. It’s a surprise,' he told me."

"I sat on the bench by the back door as she rolled her suitcase past me. I silently screamed, 'Please stay; we can work this out,' but her expression was determined, her eyes fixed and resolute."

In a series of portraits, this photographer asked Black sons to share some perspectives about their beloved mothers.

The stars received some blunt reality checks in the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" montage.