Muggsy Bogues Quotes

I can't rely on my money to be happy.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Not everything is about money.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

When you get stuff for free, you have no self-worth.

Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.

The first thing I got my mom when I got some money was a house.

I know what it's like to have not and I know what it's like to have. I think I'm conscious of what I get and grateful.