I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.