J. R. Smith Quotes

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

I'm from the country. All I've even done was use my hands. I guess that's how I've strengthened them over the years.

I'm known for my strength and it helped that from a young age I was carrying around crates of beer or carpets and heavy rolls of underlay.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.

I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

I've worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

You don't need brains for this job, just physical stamina.