Quotes About Hardship

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

Guys don't want to take hard fights, they avoid any challenges, they take the easiest fights and then they get rewarded with a UFC contract. That's not right, that should never happen that way.

My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

No cross no crown.

Today's world is very cruel.

It is a cruel game at times.

The world can be very cruel.

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.