Chubby Checker's Quotes

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last.

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.