Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Gene Autry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Gene Autry.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer, and baseball owner who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was the owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/Anaheim/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.

American - Actor | September 29, 1907 - October 2, 1998

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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.

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I learned a lot from Jimmie Rodgers when I started trying to yodel.

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You know who first started calling me 'The Cowboy' - Paul Richards. He loved to play golf and when he came to Los Angeles he used to call me up and I'd arrange for him to play at Lakeside and when he saw me, he always called me 'Cowboy' and everybody else in baseball picked it up.

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

Gene Autry

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

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When he was a player, I was always close to Jim Fregosi.

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

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I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

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I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.

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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.

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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.

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

Gene Autry

I try to treat all of them the same; I try to be a friend to the ballplayers. I treat them like human beings, like I would want to be treated.

Gene Autry

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

Gene Autry

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

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

Gene Autry

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and 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. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

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Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

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