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" A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed. "

" Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. "

" Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' "

" Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. "

" Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing. "

" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "

" Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "

" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "

" For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do. "

" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "

" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "

" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "

" Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. "

" I always wanted to be an astronaut. "

" I always want to find the best burger in town. "

" I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. "

" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "

" I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't. "

" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "

" I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. "

" I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "

" I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice. "

" If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do. "

" I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked. "

" If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. "

" I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. "

" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "

" I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday. "

" I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. "

" I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come. "

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