Charles Quotations | Page 4

If the Tate premises, ladies and gentlemen, did not symbolize the establishment to Charles Manson, no residence, no premises, ever would.

If we are going to stay with CABA, we're going to have to have the new local committee in place. This isn't something just two or three people can do by themselves, ... We have a contract for 2006 and it has to be signed by the end of the month. CABA has indicated they would allow Charles City to keep the tournament as long as a new committee is in place.

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.

There have been 40-something (U.S.) presidents overall, and they've all had different ways of doing the job. Me, Will and Charles are the same way. There's no such thing as a prototypical defensive end. There doesn't have to be.

Great players like Tiger or Nicklaus or Palmer or Hogan, there just aren't too many of them around. Is Vijay going to challenge Tiger? He probably could in a given year. Is Charles Howell? Is Ryan Moore? He certainly has the potential, but that's yet to be seen.

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

We still feel he has the potential to be productive as a big-league player. He didn't have a great offensive-type start to the year. After that long 0-for start, he put a lot of pressure on himself. It wasn't fair to Charles to expect him to find the magic and turn it around without playing on a more regular basis.

Was it Charles Dickens who said it was the best of times and the worst of times? That's how I feel. Either they're real good, or they're real bad. There's no in-between. We can't seem to settle on our fourth and fifth men, either. We've tried a lot of different combinations, and we're just not settling on a fourth or fifth man who can shoot a consistent score.

We offered Charles the Cherry Brandy but he said he'd better not have that and tried the Apricot Brandy instead.

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.