Kenny Rogers Quotations

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.

My location was good. That sets up the whole game if I can get in and out. If I can continue to do that, I'll be consistent.

I didn't deserve that. I can handle it, but I won't forget it. I'm pretty sure this is my last year.

Carlos was outstanding. They played great behind me, and I appreciate that probably more than any other pitcher, because I need my defense more than most.

Basically, steroids can jump you a level or two. The average player can become a star, and the star player can become a superstar, and the superstar? Forget it. He can do things we've never seen before. You take a guy who already has great hand-eye coordination and make him stronger, and without a doubt he'll be better.

I always get nervous and a little anxious before any game. If I don't, I need to go home. I think that's part of it that keeps me going, keeps driving me to overcome whatever obstacles are in front of me.

Whatever happens, it will be my decision. I know I pitched well this year. The other stuff? That's not my hang-up. That's not what I will look back on this season.

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Guys with those kinds of approaches are very difficult to pitch to.

Kenny Rogers is the staff ace but he'll be hard pressed to match his 13 wins from last year while serving as the Twins' fifth starter.

I think it just shows us what we're capable of doing. But the last thing I'll do is make it better than it really is. It's one month. Yes, we've played very well in a lot of ways but don't get caught up into thinking this means more than it does.

Local TV stations were hoping to ask him about it, but no photographer would take the assignment.

I thought it was an easy ground ball because I forget we had that big shift on. That's without a doubt the softest he's ever going to hit a ground ball off me, but Carlos made a great play.

I'm here to help them in any way. They can't do anything that I haven't done on the mound.

I wasn't very good in getting the ground balls I would have liked to have gotten today. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on. I would have loved to have done better without a doubt, Just like they wanted to beat me, they knew I was wanting to beat them, too.

My career's pretty much a major fluke. I probably wasn't the guy that was expected, or should have been in the big leagues or even the minor leagues when I first started. I was very fortunate in a lot of ways having people take a liking or just a chance on me. I've benefited by far more than anyone could have ever dreamed of.

You always want to second-guess yourself to a point. I think it was a decent pitch. I would like to have it a little more inside and not give up a hit.

There is a trade off -- as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Every year that I'm here it's an honor. To possibly pitch opening day, without a doubt, is an extra privilege and it's something I look forward to.

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down, Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

The skew of the audience has probably dropped 10 years, ... Older people don't have the spontaneity and the energy. You mix in 15-percent young kids and the older people enjoy the show more.

I tried to make the same adjustments that I always do. The first inning was probably a little awkward getting the ball where I wanted to, but the second inning and third it felt a lot better.

It provides self esteem to the individual. It also helps students do better in school.

It's not like it's the first mistake I've made in my life. I've never professed to being perfect.

That's a good lineup over there. At 1-0, you really don't think a solo shot is going to beat you. But it was enough tonight. All four of their pitchers pitched great, kept us down and never gave us any air to get any runs.

It's so funny what this song did, ... I went to a movie the other night and when we came out there were a bunch of kids -- around 14 or 15 years old -- with their hats on backwards and sloppy clothes. They were so excited to see Kenny Rogers. They had heard the music before but it wasn't cool until now.

These teens are our future. In all likelihood if you are inactive as a teen you will be inactive as an adult.

Ex-anything is very sad to me. I don't want to be a retro artist. That scares me.

I'm motivated to come here and pitch well. I wasn't as good as the other day. ... But I pitched well enough to keep them off balance.

I'm pretty certain this is my last start here,

I have not made a decision. I have to talk to the ones who mean the most to me and then decide.

I'm the first to screw up more than anybody else. Yeah, you'd love not to have any, because it gets you that much further into a game. But I mess around and mess up and make bad pitches. Guys make errors. There's not one of those guys behind me that's dogging it or not trying their best. Really, I don't mind it to a point because it gives me a chance to show them I'm going to get an out and get them back in the dugout and make up for it.

I'm happy with what happened today because it was a good team to play against. Getting that deep against that quality of a lineup is without a doubt a bonus.

I'm aware of it. I don't take it for granted. Every start is different.

I remember how good a hitter he was. He's no different now.

I really try not to get focused in on all the other outside distractions. I just try to do what I'm capable of doing, make the pitches I'm capable of making and do it at the right time.

I really try not to get focused in on all the other outside distractions.

I don't think that it'd benefit anybody by my not being here.

I figured, ... that everyone would be here at this table.

I don't think there's a worse 0-2 pitch I could throw in my life. God it was bad. I think before I even let it go, I knew it wasn't where I wanted it to be. It was terrible.

I don't look ahead and take anything for granted. I want to be sure that when the season starts, I'm ready to go to the mound and be successful. At this stage, it takes a lot more, unfortunately.

The music business is strictly business.

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

I was raised in the church.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

I love Viagra. I don't need it, but I tried it. It's a great legal drug.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever....

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

You can't forget Minnesota has been a great team for the last few years. We might have caught them at a good time.

The type of pitcher I am now, it lends itself to being consistent. I do know how to locate (and) I do know how to pitch and change speeds.

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

All the things it shouldn't have been, it was. It deserved to get hit.

The Gambler' series has always held a special place in my heart. I loved making those films that grew out of a character in one of my favorite songs. There is no better way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 'The Gambler's' debut than this incredible, comprehensive campaign that Time Life has put together.