Mikey Garcia Quotes

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.

What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.