Adrian Lewis Quotes

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

I like fixing things.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints - it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that's it.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.