"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence."

"...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining."

"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."

"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work."

"I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along."

"Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface."

"I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight."

"It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard."

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

"No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others."

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything."

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out."

"Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost."

"You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off."

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."

"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."

"I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map."

"I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that."

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."

"When I really like something, I try to put my all into it. This is something thats different from when I was growing up on the basketball court, running up and down, scoring 30 points or something. This is totally something different."