Earl Scruggs quote: "He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums."

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager t...
EARL SCRUGGS

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's pa...
EARL SCRUGGS

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times wh...
EARL SCRUGGS

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
EARL SCRUGGS

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
EARL SCRUGGS

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophon...
EARL SCRUGGS

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pi...
EARL SCRUGGS

I like drums, really, if they're under control.
EARL SCRUGGS

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very...
EARL SCRUGGS

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed...
EARL SCRUGGS

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I...
EARL SCRUGGS

[The Japanese] are extremely good imitators and so polite they even copy the mistakes.
EARL SCRUGGS

They're a potent offense so you do anything you can to generate extra runs against them. I got a lit...
KEITH SCRUGGS

I'm going to give her as much as rest as possible and a little bit more comfort level with her knee....
DEVIN SCRUGGS

They're going to be tough. I think it (the winning streak) shows we have a fun place to play at home...
DEVIN SCRUGGS

It was definitely a little bit better match than the last match we played in Hawaii. We were able to...
DEVIN SCRUGGS

She stepped it up not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end and passing.
DEVIN SCRUGGS

They all had to step up and they did. It shows a lot of character and a lot of heart.
DEVIN SCRUGGS

We have a lot of performers and they like to play in front of a crowd. Anytime you play in front of ...
DEVIN SCRUGGS

We pulled multiple teeth on so many patients, probably an average of three to six extractions per pa...
KAY SCRUGGS

These kids were so bright and mature. They had been hand picked by their teachers and were such a he...
KAY SCRUGGS

We prayed over teeth. We really did. The services also gave us a time of reflection each evening, wh...
KAY SCRUGGS

It was just so hot, and you had these kids you knew were hungry. So we gave our lunches away.
KAY SCRUGGS

Still, Bubba never seemed to lose his cool. He was amazing.
KAY SCRUGGS

People didn't seem scared. They were just very curious.
KAY SCRUGGS

We were told the children would cherish even one or two crayons to draw with. We had church members ...
KAY SCRUGGS

Even though Dr. Bob wasn't able to go on the trip, Rachel and I were really interested in being a pa...
KAY SCRUGGS

One little mistake can change your whole life. You have to keep that in mind.
G. KWAME SCRUGGS

I am trying to ask them to ask the deeper questions in life. The one major theme is sacrifice. They ...
G. KWAME SCRUGGS

I knew that was the ticket.
G. KWAME SCRUGGS

I want to teach them to understand life through stories. To see the character traits of the heroes. ...
G. KWAME SCRUGGS

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bea...
EARL WARREN

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...
EARL WARREN

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we...
EARL WILSON

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER

There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any s...
EARL WARREN

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public educa...
EARL WARREN

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
EARL WARREN

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were convers...
EARL WARREN

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea...
EARL WARREN

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first...
EARL WARREN

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be ...
EARL WARREN

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
EARL WARREN

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
EARL WARREN

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page ...
EARL WARREN

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
EARL WARREN

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...
EARL WARREN

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...
EARL WARREN

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has n...
EARL WARREN

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...
EARL WARREN

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ...
EARL WARREN

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...
EARL WARREN

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's n...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

All rappers are princesses like me.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I t...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go togethe...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doi...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the thin...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the jour...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ...
EARL MONROE

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B...
EARL MONROE

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadershi...
EARL MONROE

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the ...
EARL MONROE

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
EARL MONROE

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you'...
EARL MONROE

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
EARL MONROE

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce...
EARL MONROE

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
EARL MONROE

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to...
EARL MONROE

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
EARL LONG

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he ...
EARL LONG

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anythi...
EARL LONG

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
EARL KING

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin...
EARL KING

I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm pla...
EARL HINES

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. ...
EARL HINES

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it&#...
EARL CAMPBELL

Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to ...
EARL CAMPBELL

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for coll...
EARL CAMPBELL

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
EARL CAMPBELL

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like th...
EARL CAMPBELL

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North an...
EARL CAMPBELL

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm...
EARL CAMPBELL

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
EARL CAMPBELL

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
EARL CAMPBELL

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football ha...
EARL CAMPBELL

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James i...
EARL CAMPBELL

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, ...
EARL CAMPBELL

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go t...
EARL CAMPBELL

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to resta...
EARL CAMPBELL

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
EARL CAMPBELL

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was...
EARL CAMPBELL

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
EARL CAMPBELL

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard ...
EARL CAMPBELL

I did some good things as a rookie.
EARL CAMPBELL

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys...
EARL CAMPBELL

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such gre...
EARL CAMPBELL

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but st...
EARL CAMPBELL

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.
EARL CAMPBELL

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
EARL BUTZ

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
EARL BUTZ

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
EARL BUTZ

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
EARL BUTZ

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
EARL BUTZ

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
EARL BUTZ

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
EARL BUTZ

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
EARL BUTZ

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
EARL BUTZ

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
EARL BUTZ

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.
EARL BUTZ

Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
EARL BUTZ

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Un...
EARL BLUMENAUER

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a n...
EARL BLUMENAUER

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trilli...
EARL BLUMENAUER

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the bu...
EARL BLUMENAUER

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, ...
EARL BLUMENAUER

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only gr...
EARL BLUMENAUER

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to ma...
EARL BLUMENAUER

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see fail...
EARL BLUMENAUER

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations w...
EARL BLUMENAUER

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and I...
EARL BLUMENAUER

Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in it...
EARL BLUMENAUER

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred y...
EARL BLUMENAUER

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war wa...
EARL BROWDER

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in ...
EARL WARREN

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
EARL WILSON

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything...
EARL WEAVER

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks dange...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Everyone learns in about the same way, but some people are better at it than others.
EARL STEVICK

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

You become what you think about.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
EARL WILSON

If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

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Earl Scruggs

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

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