When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
— Jeff Foxworthy
I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.
My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.
If men have a smell it's usually an accident.
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.
I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
I know God is real.
We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!
Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.
If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
I really don't require a whole lot in life.
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.
I love comedy. God has given me this platform.
Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
There's no down time any more.
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
