Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes

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

I grew up poor.

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I come from a poor family.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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.

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

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

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.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

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

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.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

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.

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

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.

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

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.