ALS Awareness Quotes

The ice bucket challenge went viral in 2014, partly because it was so much fun to watch videos of celebrities or friends dumping ice water on their heads. Videos of people in the challenge have been watched more than 10 billion times on Facebook - more than once per person on the planet.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Age doesn't affect me. With ALS, I am just stoked to have another year.

I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.