Harley Race Quotes

I'm scrappy.

Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

What 'listo' means in Spanish is this: it means prepared, it means battle-tested, it means rock solid, up for anything, never backing down. And, friends, Hillary Clinton, she is listo!

I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.

Any position I was going to be in, I was going to make the best of it. I always do.

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

I want people to look back at my career and say, 'That guy never backed down from anyone.'

I'm the type of person that if I feel strongly about something and if I really want to do something, I'm just gonna do it. And if it works out, amazing, and it's like 'I told you so,' but if it doesn't work out, that's fine.

My daughter is super ballsy. I always follow her lead. I actually don't need to encourage her to take risks. She likes to push herself; she wants to see how far she can get. It's really inspiring to see that in a young woman.

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

I take on daunting tasks.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.