Quotes By Garth Brooks

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!

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

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

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

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

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

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

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

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!

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

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

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

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

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

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

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

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.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

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

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

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

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

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

I try to do my best.

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