Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

My father was a manual worker.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

The skills and productivity of American Workers, .... are the greatest economic resource our country has.

Our present numbers are so happily proportioned to our wants that no man need be idle.

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.

I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was a remarkable pathway to prosperity that sustained generations of working families.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.