Quotes About Hardship

My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I'm glad I didn't go into the family business.

My father was a truck driver, made $50 a week. And the reason why I know that so vividly is my Mom used to just constantly give him a hard time for that.

When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing up, I was the minority.

Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual - but I enjoyed it.

The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.

Just speaking from growing up in the projects, it was hard for me to take dance classes or voice classes because I didn't have money. Or learn an instrument because I didn't have the money to buy one.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you've got to keep with it.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

The stuff I rap about is what I've seen, you know? That's basically why I rap more about the struggle than the shine and all that. Because I've seen more struggle than anything.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

I came up from a difficult background.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

Pressure is just bad things for you.

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

I don't think any star kid should be banned. There are many star kids who also struggle.

It's really hard to get a chance in Barbados.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

For me, I'm an undrafted guy, so every single year was a battle.