Quotes About Hardship

Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

My dad had two college degrees but came here and was boxing pizzas. He was willing to pay his dues for the opportunity to live here and breathe this air.

The demand, the amount of games I've played, and the time away from home has been the most ever. It's been hard but I do it to give my family a better life.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

I was determined to make my name in the wrestling world no matter what sacrifices I had to make.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'

Getting through these camps, sometimes you're held together with paper clips and bubble gum and tape. You just kind of get in there and you make it work because if you pull out of a fight, you don't get paid.

I was with Dre when he was just selling tapes. He didn't have a car, a license or a job.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

For me and other families struggling to make ends meet, paying for child care out of pocket is an impossible task.

It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.