Pedro Martinez Quotes

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

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

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

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.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

My parents didn't have any money.

My kids never had the advantage I had: I was born poor.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

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 life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.