24 Quotes by Gene Autry

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.

A cowboy never takes unfair advantage – even of an enemy.

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay.

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and jot that down. You don't just write a song right quick, though. You fool around and work with it. You have to keep going over and over it and see if you can't write a song that means something.

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.

My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.

I honestly never considered myself an actor. An actor would be someone like Paul Muni or Spencer Tracy. I was more of a personality.

Oh, I fooled around with baseball, but I never really took it serious.

My movies were always clean. There was never anything obnoxious in them that might offend anybody.