Peter Crouch Quotes

It's hard to say you're struggling if you're a professional footballer. Other people have far greater problems.

It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.

Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.

I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?

We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

You know why stardom screws up people ? Because it gives you too many choices. As a 20-year-old I was making as much money as, well, as much money as it was possible for a 20-year-old to make in India. That sort of thing could drive people nuts. But I put my in money in the bank.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.

I am from a middle-class family, and everything I have achieved in life I have only appreciated. I have never gone overboard because I have seen the other side of life. When you have seen the other side of life, you appreciate what you have.