Quotes About Hardship

Life ain't a piece of cake for me.

For a star like me to take a dance show and perform in front of the whole world was not a cake walk.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

You have to put your body through hell through training camp, and you've got to be able to take that.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

Like everyone else, I have challenges.

For Australians to make it in the NBA, it's very hard, and for Australians to make it and win an NBA championship is even harder.

No world championship has been easy for me.

I know how hard it is to win a championship in this league.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

The mental baggage involved in attempting to feed yourself when poor is immense. Being able to go into a supermarket and buy what you both need and want is incredibly freeing, but it's a luxury not appreciated by anyone who hasn't experienced longterm hardship.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

I went from just a regular nappy-headed kid in poverty to Amar'e Stoudemire, New York Knicks captain superstar. But there's a lot in between that allowed me to get from point A to point B.

I wasn't born a superstar.

Honestly, I was a little bit arrogant because I came in and thought it was going to be easy and that I'd be on television in a year, no problem. Then you realize how many different things it takes to become a successful superstar, and it really is a rude awakening.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.