I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.