Deshaun Watson Quotes

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

My dad was born with no money.

I grew up poor.

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

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

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.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I come from a poor family.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

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

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.