Majors Quotes

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

  Lee Majors

  Virginia, Borders, Tennessee

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

  Lee Majors

  Starting Over, Challenges, Looks

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

  Lee Majors

  Starting Over, Starting

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. Jul 21, 2005.

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• 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.

  Lee Majors

  Europe, Worry, Able

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

  Lee Majors

  Littles, Kind, Late

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

  Lee Majors

  People, Acting, Tough

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Stars, Week, Series

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Years, Body, Amount

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

  Lee Majors

  Jobs, Play, Coaching

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Children, Florida, Years

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• 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.

  Lee Majors

  Believe, Thinking, Aggravation

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

  Lee Majors

  Done, 80s, Series

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• I started out wanting to coach football.

  Lee Majors

  Football, Coaches

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I learn the whole script before I show up.

  Lee Majors

  Scripts, Shows, Whole

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• 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.

  Lee Majors

  Disappointment, Roles, Made

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Years, Parks, Recreation

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Heaven, Gone, Genes

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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

  Lee Majors

  Football, College, Knees

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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

  Lee Majors

  Knees, Stuff, Serious

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• 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.

  Lee Majors

  Night, Two, One Day

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Ohio, Mcdonalds

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  New York, Thinking, Israel

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• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Kids, Golf

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