AJ Lee Quotes

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

We didn't grow up rich people.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

I didn't have money growing up.

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

Initially when I moved over to Italy it was really easy because I was living my dream. Everything was brand new. Then I began to get into the routine: training, school, home, home, school, training. That's all I did for 18 months. I had 20 euros to live on a week and I couldn't do anything else, because you can't with that amount of money.