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

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.

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

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

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.

I can say opportunity is the time, if you have it, you can get anything

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.