Coco Martin Quotes

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I know how to work. Not everything was given to me.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

I have brought up my kids single-handedly. So a strenuous routine is something I thrive on, not shy away from.

That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.

I am a completely self-made person. It's been a tough journey - I learnt on the job, worked 48 hours without sleeping.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I always knew I had to work hard.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

I work hard and support myself.

Work alone is noble.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.