I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

I'm very proud of my heritage.

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Hopefully generations after us will continue to protect preserve and look after this wonderful land.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.