Lolo Jones Quotes

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

I didn't make enough money in my sport to retire.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

There's little money in theatre.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

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

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

When I started and first got to the MMA gym the guys would start and say, 'You're like the All-American kid.' It was because, I don't know, I go to church every Sunday, I got married young and I've always been an All-American in college having gone All-American all four years.

When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.

I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.

My family were very poor. We never owned a house, in fact, we were lucky if we could afford the rent. So when I bought my first home, it was a very emotional time for me.

Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.