Roy Choi Quotes

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

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

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

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

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

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

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

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I've lived in so many different towns - Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, Jersey City. We didn't have a lot of money, and we'd get kicked out of places a lot.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.

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.

We didn't grow up rich people.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

I didn't have money growing up.

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.

I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

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