Mechanical Skills Quotes

Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.

My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.

I remember I went to Pune and bought an old bike and modified it. After that I started learning to ride from a friend, practicing in my backyard.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing.

You don't come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you're gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You've got to work on your own car and fix it. It's a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.