I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

He's not going to be sitting in a rocking chair. I can't wait to see what he's going to be doing.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.