Quotes About Family

My dad played fiddle as well.

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad.

It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

My mother could be quite fierce sometimes.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

When I see a fighter gets into the ring, I not only see the fighter, but I see his wife and children. I care about what happens to them. I care about what happens to that fighter after he gets out of the ring.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it's awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don't know how to do anything else.

I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

My mother belongs to a family of freedom fighters.

I enjoy winning. I just think it's just how I was brought up from a fighters' family.

I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to watch them all the time.

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

My older brother's been my best friend since I can remember. I talk to him every day of my life, and anytime he's in town we're together. But I'm also very close with my parents. We all get along very, very well. We've never had fights or anything like that.

If you put a camera on the wall, you would laugh at some of the fights me and my brothers had.

When I train for fights, my kids understand, and they have my back. They are there with me.

My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family.