I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.