Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Charley Pride
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charley Pride
Age: 82 †
Born: 1938
Born: March 18
Died: 2020
Died: December 12
Baseball Player
Businessperson
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Sledge
Mississippi
Charley Frank Pride
Even
Good
Like
Reply
Fingers
Asked
Pretty
Eyes
Eye
More quotes by Charley Pride
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
Charley Pride
Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
Charley Pride
A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.
Charley Pride
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
Charley Pride
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
Charley Pride
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
Charley Pride
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
Charley Pride
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride
Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.
Charley Pride
I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.
Charley Pride
I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Charley Pride
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
Charley Pride
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
Charley Pride
I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.
Charley Pride
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Charley Pride
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
Charley Pride
A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
Charley Pride
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
Charley Pride
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
Charley Pride