It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.
I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.
So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.
Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.
I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.
For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.
I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.
Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.
I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.
I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.
Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.
I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.
I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.
The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.
And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.
But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.
