DeMar DeRozan Quotes

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

I would rather clean than beg.

I'm happy without money.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.