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

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

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.