Truthful and sincere, always putting everthing into his work, his life , and his words.
Here are some of the many words of Charles "MASK" Lewis

• “Maybe it might not be me that touches a million people, but maybe I’ll touch that One that’ll touch a million. That’s what it’s about man…”

• “I’m not in it to be multi Mr. Billionaire; I’m in it to do what’s right in my heart and in my vision.”

• “At the end of the day that’s what Everything’s about; that somebody would be maybe just a little happier cause you’re here, you know?”

• “Just ‘cause you weren’t born with a Silver spoon in your mouth doesn’t mean you can’t turn your roads to Gold.”

• “To Quit Doesn’t Exist”2005

• “Coal into Diamonds”

• “I’m only here that you would be Better than who you think you can be. That’s what I’m here for.”  

• “Heroes from the Underground”

• “Simply Believe”

• “Watch out for the lonely dreamer, for he can change the world."

• “Doubt Doesn’t Dictate Destiny; Decision Does”2005

• “Because anybody thinking they can succeed in life on their own is delusional. You have to love people and give back or you don’t go anywhere!”

• “The fact that your mind is limited, doesn’t limit me.”2005

• “To reach out to someone, honestly desiring their best is truly the greatest thing you can do. In that is where I live and breathe.”

• “Sometimes, you just Believe… You know what I’m saying’? and regardless of any outside circumstances you choose to believe, believe in your vision, I go I got this thing inside, I believe it and I can see it and I’m just gonna go with it. I just; when you see somethin’ on the inside, you know what I mean, you just BELIEVE it? You just continue to go with it.”

• “To this day man, weather in the make-up, the fro, the bandana or not man, you see us bro… I would Hope somebody would say we encourage people, and I would hope somebody’d say wow, those guys, they’re just like regular everyday cats you know what I’m sayin?”

• “You know what at the end of the day the world’s gonna know my dream.”

• “In our own ridiculous, obnoxious style, no one is better in the world of MMA. TapouT is beyond reproach!”

• “One day I will say I just believed that I was gonna believe and chose to believe it.”

• “We do what we’ve always done; find the nobodies and help them become some bodies.”

• “Spending time reading other’s books; it occurred to me that I didn’t want to be a book that was read. I wanted to be the Dream that became Reality.”

• “We are the best at everything we do and will bring the MMA to reign supreme! It’s the best sport in the world!”

• "We all want to feel like we're David taking on Goliath."

• “Well, the thing about underdogs is they have something to prove. I want to be on that channel.”

• “ … TapouT was an underdog -- I never went to design school or anything, just read way too many comic books and have a certain belief system and won't give up on stuff…”

• “We've got nothing to lose. I liked that cartoon back in the day with the little dog with the 'U' on his chest. ‘Have no fear, Underdog is here.’ I think about that a lot.”

• “My Dream is when you think of Mixed Martial Arts, you think of TapouT.”

• “We're not here to change anything.  That's not our mindset, goal, or objective.  Tapout is here to help bring this sport to a state of world domination. World @#%&*%$# wide!  To add some spice!  To Stimulate! To bring some creativity! We are here to support the fighters and encourage promoters to the fullest." 2003

• “As we’re going further and getting bigger, there’s a constant struggle. When you take your eyes off the goal, that enables you to see all the obstacles, so if I keep my eyes on the goal, I just focus there and I just pass by, through, and up and around the obstacles. I just kept my eyes on my vision and my dream and my belief in the sport and maybe I just refuse to acknowledge anything else. (With this company) I wanted something that meant just fighting, which is the Tapout logo. Since then, I’ve only put our money back into marketing the fighters and the fighting, I only support fighters and fighting, and when I wear that t-shirt, it doesn’t mean anything but mixed martial arts and fighting. And that blind belief has steered me around a whole lot of problems and got us here.”

• “I don’t care if you call us the Tapout guys, Tapout crew, Tapout fools, two nerds and a cool guy – you know who we are!”

• “Welcome to my world. It now begins!”2003

• “Mask allows me to give my true opinion at all times,” he laughs. “Who cares about Clark Kent? I want Superman. Now that my name has come out and who me and Danny are, its okay, but the reason I used to fight it so hard in the beginning is ‘who cares?’ You don’t care about Bruce Wayne, Bruce Banner, Clark Kent – you want the superhero. I hated Spider-Man 3 when Tobey Maguire was going around without his gear on. I was like ‘will you put your damn outfit on?’”

• “We’re engaged in a war to promote something you have to stand-up for. We are here to promote mixed martial arts to the highest degree. I am not afraid to get out there and represent a sport that needs a hero - someone who doesn’t care about getting out there and believing, even if it’s not the popular thing to do.”2003

• “I’m 100% behind being an extension, being an underdog, and I like being a Team player to the sport and to the fighters.”

• “When you see us, you know what we’re about! I could care less if you want me in your face or not. I’m already in it!”2003

• “My little brother used to call me ‘Solo’ because I thought I could do everything by myself, and that was my nickname for a minute,” he said. “But that don’t work. I changed it to ‘Mask’ and now I have Skyskrape and PunkAss and a whole lot of other friends, and I learned that you have to be a team player.”

• “Hopefully, at the end of the day, it would be said that I encouraged people to encourage.  Encouraged you to believe in yourself way past where you believed you could go.  Get you to believe in something that’s way up here, that you don’t really want to touch it, you really don’t want to believe…man, go believe in that, and focus on that thing, and when you do that, that’s when you’ll do something that sets you completely apart from everybody else.  It just takes one idea.  One.  To change the course of your history, your kids history, and influence many a millions of others.  There’s just one, but you’ve got to go up in that one little part that you’re thinking is just so crazy…it only sounds crazy because nobody else is thinking about it.  That’s your special gift; you gotta get up there in that, Whatever it is.

• “When I did the first t-shirt and put it on, in my mind, I was like ‘how could everybody not want to feel like I feel right now, like I’m bulletproof?’”

• “With all this that we’ve done right now, I still every morning I wake up I keep pushin’ it, you know what I’m sayin’? That’s it. And if they don’t know, now you know. I am Mask. That’s straight. That’s TapouT.”
  
  
• “Life is full of influences; It’s your application that sets you apart. That's something I wrote to myself and completely believe in. You can't be scared to set out to do something in life because you believe it may be similar to something, or because you don't know the clear cut path on how you're going to accomplish your goal or dream! Just take a step towards your belief daily - fearlessly, wholeheartedly, digging and dreaming within yourself, believing that as you push on through sacrifice, you will one day stand alone on top of a hill that you created that now encourages and inspires others to chase their dream. Knowing that through tenacity and patience anything can be achieved. If you simply believe
  
  
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