Lacey Evans Quotes

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

A true champion will fight through anything.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

I never fall down. I always fight.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.'

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Never give in and never give up.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.