praise

“Life is a fight, it’s a matter of what you are fighting for.’ Kelly Motley was fighting for more than her survival, it was to continue to exist, to have her soul. Conquer or be conquered, humanity’s call to Arms since our beginning. Take a ringside seat, and see how a battle plan for life is devised and executed. You’ll be waiting for each bell to ring.” 

—TEDDY ATLAS
Hall of Fame commentator, boxing trainer to 18 world champion fighters, apprentice to the late Cus D’Amato and one of the most important voices in boxing. 

“Kelly is not a breast cancer survivor. This girl is a breast cancer thriver.” 

—REBECCA WELLS
Author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, #1 on The New York Times bestsellers list for 35 weeks and selling six million copies. 

“Kelly Motley’s book is about spiritual hope and power and courageously getting into the ring when facing your worst enemy. In her case it is a formidable cancer opponent. This is one of the best written books I have read and there is an important lesson for everyone who reads it. She does not gloss over her raw feelings or her struggles as she has to deal with each new stage, disappointment, and complication. She faced her worst fears head on–including near death–and came out the other side stronger than ever. Whenever I have to face my worst fear or greatest enemy, I intend to read this book again to remind me how to do it.” 

—STORMIE OMARTIAN
Stormie Omartian is the bestselling author of The Power of a Praying Series and many other books. (Her books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Her bestselling book, The Power of a Praying Wife, has sold 9 million copies.)  

"I‘m reading The Fight for My Life—just about 60 pages in—and have to stop and say how GOOD (and I mean that with all the depth & force of a blues aside) it is……Kelly Motley's got it: so much in just the first few pages: her attentiveness, a lost history of Nashville, the wonder of belief, and much, much more…”

- COLIN DAYAN
Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and author of numerous celebrated books such as The Law is a White Dog and With Dogs on the Edge of Life

“Kelly’s book – I started it last night, finished this morning.  It is gripping.  A sensitive treatment of the most profound questions – life and love, death and despair.  The fight For Your Life has become the inspiration for our lives. Of course I cheered when she brought in the Whitland menfolk, husband and sons. They’re as good on the page as in real life.  Sena, he’s a star, also on the page and in life.”

- FLETCHER BURTON
Former US. Ambassador, former head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.