Top 120 Ted Nugent Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.”

— Ted Nugent

52. “Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.”

— Ted Nugent

53. “I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.”

— Ted Nugent

54. “There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.”

— Ted Nugent

55. “Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn’t part of America’s immigration process.”

— Ted Nugent

56. “Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I’m going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I’d scare you.”

— Ted Nugent

57. “There aren’t really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.”

— Ted Nugent

58. “Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.”

— Ted Nugent

59. “I’m militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.”

— Ted Nugent

60. “I like Dave Grohl, I guess he’s a little newer. It makes you shake, it’s uppity and spirited.”

— Ted Nugent

61. “I don’t like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.”

— Ted Nugent

62. “A man must stand up for what he believes in – especially in this culture war between good and evil.”

— Ted Nugent

63. “Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children’s Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children’s charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children’s charity than the hunters donate we won’t go hunting.”

— Ted Nugent

64. “I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.”

— Ted Nugent

65. “War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don’t crush evil then evil will get you.”

— Ted Nugent

66. “If you want to get a sensual thunderbolt then you have got to be cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc. I find that whole milk and lots of Vitamin D help.”

— Ted Nugent

67. “Hunting is the last perfect thing.”

— Ted Nugent

68. “I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in ’87. I sang ‘Oh Baby Please Don’t Go,’ the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.”

— Ted Nugent

69. “There’s an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you’re going to consume today.”

— Ted Nugent

70. “My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived.”

— Ted Nugent

71. “You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna crush your face.”

— Ted Nugent

72. “While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I’ve ever owned.”

— Ted Nugent

73. “If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?”

— Ted Nugent

74. “Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!”

— Ted Nugent

75. “My idea of fast food is a mallard.”

— Ted Nugent

76. “The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.”

— Ted Nugent

77. “For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.”

— Ted Nugent

78. “James Brown’s Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it’s a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.”

— Ted Nugent

79. “The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.”

— Ted Nugent

80. “The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I’m good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.”

— Ted Nugent

81. “Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada.”

— Ted Nugent

82. “So listen everybody to what I got to say, there’s hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.”

— Ted Nugent

83. “My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I’m surprised my smile hasn’t killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.”

— Ted Nugent

84. “Chicken nuggets don’t die any easier than baby fur seals.”

— Ted Nugent

85. “Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.”

— Ted Nugent

86. “If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he’d probably be alive today.”

— Ted Nugent

87. “I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.”

— Ted Nugent

88. “Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.”

— Ted Nugent

89. “I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn’t get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.”

— Ted Nugent

90. “I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.”

— Ted Nugent

91. “I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.”

— Ted Nugent

92. “Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.”

— Ted Nugent

93. “I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.”

— Ted Nugent

94. “To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.”

— Ted Nugent

95. “I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.”

— Ted Nugent

96. “I’m an extremist? I don’t think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.”

— Ted Nugent

97. “How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

— Ted Nugent

98. “Only an abuser can make the decision to stop abusing.”

— Ted Nugent

99. “It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.”

— Ted Nugent

100. “The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.”

— Ted Nugent