Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.