Bam Adebayo Quotes

The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who's been doing so in real life all along.

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

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.

My mom raised six kids on her own.

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

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.

It wasn't easy to get the family to this point. I had to work two jobs. I had all nine kids. I stayed there with them and got them all into show biz. I don't care what anyone else said, I did my job.

My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I've accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.

Mum was born in 1938 in Guyana and came to Britain at the end of the 60s. She settled in Tottenham, north London, and worked for London Transport and then as a home help, a care assistant and finally a local authority officer. Bringing up five children singlehandedly with little money can't have been easy, but she did it with tremendous style.

Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

My mother has done a great job with her kids. The daily struggle of raising three daughters with a very limited income yet seeing to it that they get a good upbringing, giving her daughters wings even after not being so educated - that person is my hero.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

We didn't have everything we wanted when we were younger, but there was never a moment we didn't feel our parents weren't doing everything they could.

My dad lost his father when he was nine and ran away from home to come to Mumbai to feed his mother and his three siblings.

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

Mum stayed home to look after us, and Dad was an electrician, working long hours to support us. We never went without, but we did have to be careful.