Freddy Fender Quotes

#1. Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

Sakyong Mipham

#2. What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Kurt Browning

#3. The '18-40-60 Rule': at 18 you care what everyone thinks, at 40 you don't care what anyone thinks and at 60 you realize no one ever cared about what you thought, they were busy worrying about themselves.

Daniel Amen

#4. I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Freddy Fender

#5. In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Freddy Fender

#6. I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Freddy Fender

#7. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Freddy Fender

#8. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Freddy Fender

#9. I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Freddy Fender

#10. They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Freddy Fender

#11. Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Freddy Fender

#12. I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Freddy Fender

#13. Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Katherine Parkinson

#14. Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

William Blake

#15. Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Freddy Fender

#16. Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Shawn Ashmore

#17. He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan