Rich Froning Jr. Quotes

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

School is a foretaste of life.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

My profession has helped me to grow up.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.