Quotes About Hardship

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

Training is very tiring.

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.

It isn't easy to get to a final, and then winning the title is also difficult.

It is not for nothing that titles are decided at the back.

To be honest, I don't remember what happened in '95, '96 and '97. It was hard years. My memory is deleting.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

I had to steal to survive.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.