--- title: "5 Told Phil Quotes By Willie Robertson" description: "5 Told Phil quotes by Willie Robertson. Plus more from Willie Robertson and more Told Phil sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/willie-robertson-12290_day-life_nowadays-people-often-ask-me-what-it-s-l_498885.jpg" --- > [“Nowadays, people often ask me what it’s like hunting with my dad. We’ve actually had offers of tens of thousands of dollars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/nowadays-people-often-ask-me-what-it-s-like-hunting-with-my-dad-we-ve/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/willie-robertson-12290_day-life_nowadays-people-often-ask-me-what-it-s-l_498885.jpg) > [“Korie’s parents came to the house to see me, and I sat on the couch with Johnny and Chrys. It was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/korie-s-parents-came-to-the-house-to-see-me-and-i-sat-on-the-couch/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/willie-robertson-12290_getting-married_korie-s-parents-came-to-the-house-to-see_550298.jpg) > [“I found out Si was taking naps every day on Kay’s couch! I went to Phil and told him it was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-found-out-si-was-taking-naps-every-day-on-kay-s-couch-i-went-to/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/willie-robertson-12290_every-day_i-found-out-si-was-taking-naps-every-day_718337.jpg) > [“On another memorable hunt, a lone mallard came in. Jase told Phil, “Let’s let Willie take this one.” Now, I know why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/on-another-memorable-hunt-a-lone-mallard-came-in-jase-told-phil-let-s/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/willie-robertson-12290_raise-gun_on-another-memorable-hunt-a-lone-mallard_2552813.jpg) > [“I kept throwing my shotgun up to shoot, but I knew I had only one shot. Finally, about eleven o’clock in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-kept-throwing-my-shotgun-up-to-shoot-but-i-knew-i-had-only-one-shot/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/willie-robertson-12290_told-phil_i-kept-throwing-my-shotgun-up-to-shoot-b_2802387.jpg) ## More by Willie Robertson > [I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-think-dad-didn-t-really-treat-us-like-children-he-treated-us-more/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“People ask me, “Why don’t you call in the blind?” I ask them, “Would you call with Phil Robertson in your blind?” It’s like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/people-ask-me-why-don-t-you-call-in-the-blind-i-ask-them-would-you/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“Another exciting but scary adventure happened in Salzburg, Austria, where we were staying at a youth hostel named Stadtalm Naturfreundehaus. It was at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/another-exciting-but-scary-adventure-happened-in-salzburg-austria/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“Jep has turned into an excellent cameraman. He shoots our Duckman videos and does a lot editing. Phil brags about how no one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/jep-has-turned-into-an-excellent-cameraman-he-shoots-our-duckman/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“Nowadays, people often ask me what it’s like hunting with my dad. We’ve actually had offers of tens of thousands of dollars from people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/nowadays-people-often-ask-me-what-it-s-like-hunting-with-my-dad-we-ve/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“Like Uncle Si says, it’s never a good family reunion when you start firing relatives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/like-uncle-si-says-it-s-never-a-good-family-reunion-when-you-start/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“Korie’s parents came to the house to see me, and I sat on the couch with Johnny and Chrys. It was not pretty. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/korie-s-parents-came-to-the-house-to-see-me-and-i-sat-on-the-couch/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“As far as the duck-blind rules, they are sort of unwritten in Phil’s blind. He always does most of the calling. You wouldn’t dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/as-far-as-the-duck-blind-rules-they-are-sort-of-unwritten-in-phil-s/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [As kids, we always sat at the table with my parents and grandparents, and they would tell stories. We were very poor, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/as-kids-we-always-sat-at-the-table-with-my-parents-and-grandparents/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/my-life-and-my-whole-eternity-belongs-to-god-all-this-stuff-is/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [“I found out Si was taking naps every day on Kay’s couch! I went to Phil and told him it was a problem. “Look,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-found-out-si-was-taking-naps-every-day-on-kay-s-couch-i-went-to/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/making-duck-calls-is-the-hardest-thing-that-we-make-so-there-s-skill/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [I know a lot of famous people, done a lot of cool things. Tell you what separates me from the guys I know is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-know-a-lot-of-famous-people-done-a-lot-of-cool-things-tell-you-what/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/the-original-purpose-of-the-beards-was-to-help-with-the-wind-when-it/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) > [I would recommend getting married young. That way you don't have all the baggage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-robertson/i-would-recommend-getting-married-young-that-way-you-don-t-have-all/) [Willie Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-robertson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/told-phil/willie-robertson/#itemlist", "name": "5 Told Phil Quotes By Willie Robertson", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Nowadays, people often ask me what it’s like hunting with my dad. We’ve actually had offers of tens of thousands of dollars from people who want to spend a day in Phil’s blind. It always amazes us because when we were growing up, duck hunting was our everyday life. When we were kids, we were always in the blind with Dad. I don’t remember my first hunt or the first duck I killed, like other young hunters. It was a different time and Phil wasn’t exactly a traditional dad. He didn’t take pictures of our first duck. It wasn’t sentimental; it was just life. We hunted and fished because we wouldn’t eat if we didn’t. Phil’s number one concern was always safety. If you were careless with a loaded gun, you would not come back to the blind. You’d be stuck at home with Mom the next time. Also, you had to be prepared because Phil wasn’t gonna baby you out there. If you didn’t wear the proper clothes, you were gonna freeze your butt off. And I did many times! You had to get your stuff together as well: shells, guns, and whatever you needed. I will never forget a time when I was about ten and we were all going on a dove hunt. It was opening day, and we were all excited. I was shooting a .410 shotgun, but I could only find one shell. Since we were leaving early in the morning, Phil let me know we wouldn’t be able to stop at a store because none of them would be open that early in the morning. “You better make that shot count,” Phil told me. So I shadowed Phil during the entire hunt, watching him drop ‘em. I rant to fetch the birds for Phil, and if any were still alive, he would pinch their heads. With one flick of Phil’s wrist, the dove’s head separated from its body. I was fascinated and yet a little freaked out. You can’t be sensitive when you’re hunting with Phil. I kept throwing my shotgun up to shoot, but I knew I had only one shot. Finally, about eleven o’clock in the morning, I saw my opportunity. I told Phil I was gonna take my shot. He was supportive and told me to make it count. Boom! Wouldn’t you know I smoked the dove? I couldn’t believe it. I went one-for-one with only one shell. As I turned to look at my dad with the biggest smile ever, I noticed he was putting his gun down. He’d shot at the exact same time. He wanted to make sure my shot counted. “Good shot, Willie boy, put your safety back on,” Phil told me. I didn’t know why the safety mattered since I only had one shell, but he wanted to instill the practice in my brain. 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He had the articles with him to support his arguments. “So you’re calling that right now?” I asked him. “In all your wisdom, you know we’re going to get divorced?” “I’m not saying that,” Johnny told me. “You just said it,” I responded. “You just said half end in divorce. Well, what if we’re the good half?” Then Johnny went on to say that if we got married, he didn’t want me coming to him for advice. But then later on in the conversation, he told me I could ask him about anything. He was completely irrational, and I, of course, had to point that out to him. “You just said I couldn’t ask you for advice,” I told him. He was so mad, I thought he was going to leap off the couch and hit me. Before they left, Johnny looked at me and asked me one last question. “What’s your plan?” he asked. “What’s my plan?” I said to him. “What exactly is your plan?” he said. “Where are you going to work? Where are you going to live?” “Well, I reckon I’ll just buy a trailer and put it on the back property at Phil’s house,” I told him. That threw Johnny over the top. He and Chrys stormed out of Alan and Lisa’s house, and I was convinced there was no way they were going to give us their blessing to get married. I called Korie to tell her how the meeting went. “It went terrible,” I told her. “We were yelling at each other. It was pretty ugly.” Then Korie had to hang up because her parents were calling her phone. She called me back a few minutes later. Much to my surprise, her parents told her, “Okay, if you’re determined to do this, we’re going to support you.” Johnny didn’t say much to me for the next few months, during the planning of the wedding, and I knew Korie’s parents still didn’t like the idea of her getting married so young. I told Phil that Korie’s parents didn’t want us getting married and asked him what I should do. “Here’s what I’d do,” Phil said, while sitting back in his recliner. “I’d call them up and say, “Y’all missed that. The wedding was last week when we went to the justice of the peace and got married. 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He smoked cigarettes for almost forty years and then quit after his heart attack, so we were all so proud of him. Even before his heart attack, I wasn’t sure about putting Si on our DVDs because I thought he would just come across too crazy. He cracked us up in the duck blind and we all loved him, but I told Jep and the other camera guys to film around him. Honestly, I didn’t think anyone would understand what he was saying. When we finally tried to put him on the DVDs, he clammed up in front of the camera and looked like a frog in a cartoon just sitting there. He wouldn’t perform. Finally, we put a hidden camera under a shirt on Si’s desk. We were near the end of editing a DVD and showed a shooting scene to Si. He always takes credit for shooting more ducks than he really did. He’s said before that he killed three ducks with one shot! We were watching patterns hitting the water, and Si started claiming the ducks like he always does and going off on one of his long tangents. 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