Manny Pacquiao Quotes

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

I come from a poor family.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.

I've been poor most of my life.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.