Lacey Evans Quotes

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

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.'

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?'

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'