“The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you’re a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.”

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it’s almost like, as Yogi Berra said, ‘deja vu all over again.’

Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

Now, I’ve gotten to the point in my career, I’m 13 years in, to where I know that I’m funny. I know that I’m good at this.

Maybe I’m naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.

10′ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.