Roddy Piper Quotes

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.