Junior Seau Quotes

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?

When you grow up how I grew up - with nothing - anything that you have is a lot.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Duisburg was the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany. But it was great. We had nothing, but I didn't miss nothing so that was fine.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

I'm so grateful for everything I went through. We learn from the hardships.

My family didn't have much. You know, we didn't have much and everything. From when I was 17, I moved to London, you know, and I - obviously, it's bettered my family, and I'm just grateful, really.

It's nice coming from Summerhill, because you don't come from having everything, and what you do get, you appreciate.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.