Dwane Casey Quotes

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

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.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

I used to live off of nothing.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life.