Physical Job Quotes

Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.

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!

My job is intense. It's very physical.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, "We got this. We're going to be OK."

Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.

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

I get to work out for my job and punch people and wrassle, that's a pretty cool job.

I really enjoy working physically.

In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.