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


Earl Scruggs

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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