Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.

I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

I started out wanting to coach football.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.