“I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I g...” — Chi Chi Rodriguez Quote

“I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.”

“Anybody that worries about somebody suing them, that means that they're so crooked that they sue people, and they think people are gonna sue them.”

“I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.”

“My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.”

“I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.”

“Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.”

“I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'”

“I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.”

“Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.”

“To build my capability to withstand punishment, I was beaten with a stick or cane sometimes 3,000 times a day.”

“My father was a disciplinarian. He had this cane and he would spare no one if found at fault. Unlike Babita, I was not physically strong and couldn't cope with the training. So I got the most beatings.”

“Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!”