Richard Dawson Quotations

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

God bless all the little children in the world.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career,

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

Jack's a real good guy and he runs me clean and I run him clean. There was a lot of lapped traffic out there tonight. It seemed to always be in the way. But that's a part of racing. They pay their money just as much as everybody else.