Barry Keoghan Quotes

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.

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?

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.

I grew up in an area of inner-city Liverpool. There were plenty of opportunities but also plenty of challenges - you could go down the right or wrong path, depending on one moment.

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

I am from the ghetto.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

People's hustle in the Bronx is real.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

If you work hard, no career should be off-limits.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I think whenever you have any kind of injury or challenge, you just have to deal with it the best you can. You have to decide what's important to you and focus on getting back to where you want to be. And enjoy where you are and what your goals and dreams are and just give it 100 percent.

I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn't face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

My mom and dad both worked when I was little... My mom, her mom died when she was 11, so she had a rough childhood as well. She put herself through college in three years at the University of Texas - while working a job to pay for it.

The truth is I've trained myself for much of my career.

I know nothing comes easily in life and I don't want to make things easy for myself.