Rick Harrison Quotes

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

I basically work all the time.

I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.

It is true I work 16 hours a day.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!