Lee Trevino Quotes

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

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.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

My parents didn't have any money.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

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

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

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

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.