A biography for Soupy Saleshasn’t been written yet.
“I do good business in Fort Myers. I'm home safe here.”
“My brother said I'm lucky because most people have to die before anything gets named after them. I told him I've died many times in clubs.”
“Everybody had nicknames when I was a kid.”
“Maybe as you get older people feel sorry for you or something.”
“I have a warm spot in my heart for Marshall.”
“It's good to have someplace to work.”
“Whenever I meet someone, the topic of conversation always winds around to the question: 'how do you explain your success?' Well, I have no magic formula and no dark secrets, except I really enjoy my work. I love every moment of it and I think it shows.”
“I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.”
“Soupy Sales is a legal name. It has been since 1956.”
“What I tell everybody is that I take good care of myself and I have the body of a 20-year-old... waiting for me in the next room.”
“I don't use four-letter words. I'm not looking for shock.”
“I've never done anything simply because I thought I could get away with it. I've just wanted to do the funniest show.”
“I found a way to beat the Army. I joined the Navy.”
“Show me a rock imported from France, and I'll show you de Gaulle stone.”
“Regardless of what people say, I think I was influential to a lot of kids and a lot of people.”
“Groucho, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis it was incredible. It's a thrill to work with people like that, to say 'I know them. They're my friends.'”
“Our name was Supman, and people always pronounced it Soupman or called me Soupbone. Kids had nicknames in those days like Slim or Tiny or Dutch or Fatso. So when I went to Cincinnati in 1950, they changed my name to Soupy Sales.”
“I've been in show business for parts of six decades.”
“I'm a lucky guy to have such loyal and faithful fans.”
“I'm an intelligent man.”