Humble Beginnings Quotes

When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.

I think what I came from and what I saw molded me into a certain person. Nothing was ever wrapped or a silver spoon, so I don't think I would know how to live and I don't think I'd want to live if it wasn't a grind.

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

In my career I always tried to improve to become one of the great players, because I felt I had received a gift from God and I had to make good use of it, to become worthy of having received this talent.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

My family always helped me. I had people around me who always pushed me to be the best: my dad, my mum. My dad used to play and coach as well. But I wasn't born with shiny things.

When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.

I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.

I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I come from a very working-class background.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

When I got the job with Fox, I said 'God, are you sure?' I know nothing about politics; I've been covering car accidents and street closures and the pothole patrol in my hometown.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.