Quotes About Support

MMA has been very accepting. I wouldn't say that every gym you go to is as open as the gym I'm a part of. But they just accepted me with open arms.

I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.

We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.

Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

You need somebody to open your eyes, to tell you there's things that you can do, and I had that person in Brian Marwood. I think if I'm where I am today, it's because of him.

Miley is one of my best friends, and she helps with some of that transitional stuff - trying to escape your childhood. She's super open-minded, and I'm working on becoming more like that.

Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

All parents want their children to have respectable jobs that pay well. However, my parents are both open-minded and they respect the choice I made.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

Having never taken a business class, the economics of restaurants scared me. I opened Chipotle with the idea that I could step away from it and use it to support my full-scale restaurant.

In 2011, my wife, Courtney, and I, with my amazing mother and sister, opened the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist Hospital.

I love what Eric Church is doing. He and I are friends, and he opened some shows for us a few years ago and I would fly him home on the jet. He is a good one.

Sonya has opened up a huge light for me. Now that we travel so much together around the world, she's helped me open up and be so involved in the LGBTQ community.

As I've opened up, the less negative comments there are. Ninety-eight percent of followers love what I'm doing for fashion, for tennis, for coming back from an injury. They follow the part that inspires them.

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.

When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.