Quotes About Hardship

It isn't easy to break into Bollywood. But that's not my goal.

A lot of people think you go to a top college, you come into the NBA and it'll be all a breeze and easy. It's not like that.

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.

There's not always bright lights. Sometimes you have to go through dark tunnels to be able to get to the success.

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.

I had to go broke for music.

Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

Everybody goes through bumps and bruises through the year.

That comes with playing basketball, just nicks and bumps and things like that.

My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.

I would train every day after school from 3.30pm until 5.30pm and then I had to take three buses to get home, which would take at least two hours.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.

Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.