Quotes By Lee Majors

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I started out wanting to coach football.

I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.