Manny Pacquiao Quotes

I've been poor most of my life.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

My family were really poor.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

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

I was poor my whole life.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I grew up poor.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

My parents didn't have any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.