George Weah Quotes

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I grew up poor.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

I've been poor most of my life.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

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

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.