“Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth”

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers.

Change isn’t always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole ‘Super Bowl’ generalization of our world – You’re on this side, I’m on that side; you’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat; you’re country music, I’m rock music.

Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what’s going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle.

I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes.

I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn’t a vegetarian long before I realized there’s something to that.

I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I’m going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games.