Quotes About Hustle

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour.

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

When 'Hide Away' first started gaining a bit of momentum, I was visiting at least two radio stations per day - sometimes in different cities - to spread the word about the song. It was a hustle, but so worth it.

'Drip Too Hard' - we knew that was the one.

Where I'm from, Toronto, is a big city.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful

This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.

It's barely after 11:00 p.m., early by New York standards, so the street is busy.

I could say was, Tommy, you know and I know, neither way is really better. In the long run it's all just hustle. So our hustle is different. So what? And he said, I'm still figuring that part out.

when an ancient text describes "worldly concerns," it is very important to understand that this is actually a geographic designation, not an existential one. The "world" really just encompassed the frenetic endeavors of life in the city, that place of hustle and bustle, lust and heartache, career and ambition, art and entertainment, government and politics. Deeply pursuing spiritual practice meant leaving the city behind.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn't happy.

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

I used to to hustle growing up.

Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.

Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

People's hustle in the Bronx is real.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

In this business, you gotta hustle.

A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.