Douglas Leone Quotes

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!

I like being outside and I like hard work.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

When I was 17, I had to peel 100 kg of tomatoes every day.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Working all winter shining all summer

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I've worked cornfields.

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.