Chael Sonnen Quotes

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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.

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

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

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.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

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

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

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

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.

I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.