Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.