John Daly Quotes

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I don't come from a privileged background.

My kids never had the advantage I had: I was born poor.

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

My dad was born with no money.

I've been very lucky - I don't come from a privileged upbringing.

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Very few people can afford to be poor.