[his acceptance speech from the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Awards] "When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So ev...
The police filmed a show one time in Florida because of the P.G.A, Y.M.C.A., or somebody. They thought that I was...something. They said, `Man, he`s got to be crazy`. So they, the police, came out and filmed the show. I couldn`t move. I had to stand still...
[at a 1972 press conference in Madison Square Garden] "Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding? All that I ever did was just jiggle."