Oklahoma Quotes - Page 2

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977