Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Corey Harrison

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Corey Harrison.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Corey Harrison

Richard Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison is an American businessman and reality television personality, known as a cast member of the History TV series Pawn Stars, which documents his work at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, which he co-owns with his father, Rick Harrison.

At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.
I remember when we'd get excited that we had 70 people in the store a day. Now we're, like, 'We only did 2,000 people?'
I box 12 rounds a day five days a week. — © Corey Harrison
I box 12 rounds a day five days a week.
I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.
We had a talk early on and decided we did not want to end up like the Hogans.
I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.
I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.
I probably have five protein shakes a day.
There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.
Hitachi Nail Guns were as good as gold in this city for years. I had 300 on pawn, and then when they stopped building houses in Vegas I wound up with 300 Hitachi Nail Guns that I can't give away.
I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money. There's always a chance you could turn on 'Pawn Stars' one day and that'd be on there.
I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.
It was kind of like, 'Who's gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?'
I used to be 400 pounds.
I can only have four to five ounces of food in my stomach. When you only have that much space in there, you don't want to fill it up with crap.
When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.
One of the perks is when John Mayer calls you up and tells you, 'Hey, buddy, I just bought a ranch in Montana. When are you gonna come by? When are we gonna hang out?' It's just not something I ever expected to happen.
You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.
It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.
I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.
If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.
I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack full of rocks off of you.
I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.
I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.
It's weird to feel better at 31 than 25. — © Corey Harrison
It's weird to feel better at 31 than 25.
When I fire, I just look at them and I say, 'You're fired.' I don't prolong it.
I never thought I would downgrade into a 4,000-square-foot house. It took me about two months to find places to put everything.
I would work at a 7-Eleven even if I was retired just so I could have something to do every day.
I worked with him every day, and he was more than my grandfather. He was my best friend.
When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.
You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.
Our typical customer is a local guy who needs the money to get by for the week.
I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.
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