I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

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

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

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.