Quotes About Hardship

I've been in places that have been robbed.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.

We never complained, 'We don't have this or that.' Even though we had to plant certain things and harvest them to be able to eat, we never complained.

My parents have never given me anything on a plate.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

Nobody said being platinum was easy.

I am glad that I had to work my way up and was not handed anything on a platter.

It's not easy to make the playoffs, and I think a lot of people overlook that. They think it's a piece of cake, but it's definitely not.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

It's not been a pleasant life.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

It was once upon a time where me, myself as a kid - and I know plenty of people who grew up the same way - couldn't even afford a pair of shoes.

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

Even when I had plenty money it was still a struggle.

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

Man, it's hard living in N.Y.C. - even when you have money in your pockets.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.