The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.
I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.
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.
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
My health is good; it's my age that's bad.