Harmon Killebrew Quotes

Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

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!

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

You don't need brains for this job, just physical stamina.

I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.

I'm from the country. All I've even done was use my hands. I guess that's how I've strengthened them over the years.

My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

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

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

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

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.

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

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

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'.

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