Haley Barbour Quotes

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

My mom raised six kids on her own.

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

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

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

I was raised by a strong single mother.

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.

My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!

Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.

My mum had me when she was just 18 and she worked three jobs, including bar tending, to put food on the table and she also went to night college. She worked really hard for us and I kept myself busy with football.

Every time I take the field, I know I have to run hard for my mum, because of all the tough times we went through. Only we know how difficult it was.