Quotes About Hardship

I know the price I've paid to be where I am.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look back on it all and say I played in four NFL games. It's incredible.

Granddad was deported to a Siberian prison camp at the age of 15.

It's a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that's where I got my motivation.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend some of the football camps. They got through some hard times, but it was for me, and that's what I've learned from them. I'm very grateful for that.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.

I didn't grow up overly privileged.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.