Jorge Masvidal Quotes

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

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

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

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

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I come from a poor family.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I grew up poor.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

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

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.