Draymond Green Quotes

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

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

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.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

My life was pretty rough.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.