If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature, I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are, I love you. I'm not going to judge people's morals. I say live and let live.

When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can grasp the degree of adrenaline and intensity and sheer over-the-top animal spirit and attitude that I live on stage. I've got to take that deep breath.