Garth Brooks Quotes

"Just keep taking chances and having fun."

"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."

"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got."

"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt."

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."

"Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith."

"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."

"You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is."

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."

"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!"

"The guys have told me not to quit my day job."

"It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet."

"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

"I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut."

"Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'"

"If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also."

"My father and brothers were in the military."

"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation."

"I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!"

"If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people."

"The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums."

"I'm much too young to feel this damn old."

"Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing."

"People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that."

"Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class."

"Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!"

"Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way."

"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy."

"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"