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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

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

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.