Eva Gabor Quotes

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.

Some [slaves] require a vigor of discipline to make them do reasonable work.

I abhor this dirty work but when one is employed to sweep chimneys, one must black one’s fingers.

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.

My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.

I used to wake up at 5 A.M., and my routine involved six hours of training, both in the morning and evening.

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 work hard on the training field every day.

When I was ten years old, I would get up at 5 in the morning, cycle to the swimming baths, do an hour-and-a-half session, then cycle to school, do a day at school, then cycle back to the baths after.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.