Quotes from Corey Harrison

I would work at a 7-Eleven even if I was retired just so I could have something to do every day.

I box 12 rounds a day five days a week.

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 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.

It was kind of like, 'Who's gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?'

At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.

When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.

I used to be 400 pounds.

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 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.

When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.

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.

When I fire, I just look at them and I say, 'You're fired.' I don't prolong it.

I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.

I worked with him every day, and he was more than my grandfather. He was my best friend.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.

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?'

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 like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.

I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.

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.

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.